<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 September 2013 00:44, Levente Uzonyi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leves@elte.hu" target="_blank">leves@elte.hu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 4 September 2013 03:21, tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 02-09-2013, at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Who, if anyone, is maintaining the FreeType package? Who, if anyone, is using it? It has some rather old methods that nastily over-ride more recent methods in the trunk image. That implies it is<br>
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Well it certainly sounds like nobody cares about FreeType. I guess that means nobody will mind as I rewrite some of the low-level font/scanner code and almost certainly break FreeType.<br>
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In Pharo, we certainly do. But FreeType code also needs a decent review and cleanup for sure.<br>
The freetype packages is an integral part of pharo base image, and maintained there.<br>
As for its plugin, i even managed to fix a bug recently in it.. in primitive which nobody uses though..<br>
mainly because i had plans to use it, but i haven't time to play an experiment, yet. (i am still thinking<br>
, maybe naively, that FT rendering speed can be improved).<br>
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Concerning MultiCharacterMeetPainfulDeath<u></u>WhenStaringAtIt ... it just impossible to do something with it,<br>
especially considering that it used for rendering text, and if you break/change it , you won't be able to fix it<br>
(because the image is using the very same code which you just broke to render all text.. ).<br>
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Why can't you just create a copy and modify that? That way you won't break your image.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div>that, i think was exactly the reason why we having CharacterScanner and MultiCharacterScanner in our images<br></div><div>today.. <br></div><div>so, rephrasing: "it has been tried once, and it doesn't seems to help" :)<br>
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At least in Pharo, we decided to not even try to do something about it (and as far as i know, nobody tries<br>
to do anything for years), instead we decided to write things from scratch,and when it will be ready, throw<br>
all this out without a bit of regret.<br>
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tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" target="_blank">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
Useful random insult:- Not much to show for four billion years of evolution.<br>
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Igor Stasenko.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Igor Stasenko.
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