[UI] Diff tools.

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Igor,

I'd be happier if you actually used it, but...

It does not require BitBlt rule 41. It uses rules 28 and 34. So it uses 
the 32 bits (actually it could work with 24, but never tried) to store 
the full subpixel data. The Form in the font has the glyphs in black 
with colored borders for subpixel rendering.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 2008/4/16 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
>   
>> Did I ever tell I did a very small change set that allows 32 bpp
>> StrikeFonts, and a set of free subpixel rendered fonts? Works on any
>> platform without any new plugin. It is what you need for this to look really
>> great (if you are not using FreeType). It is at
>> http://www.jvuletich.org/NiceFonts.html .
>>
>>     
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> I'm aware of your changes concerning fonts.
> Just one question, why it requires 32bpp , not 8bpp?
> A raster font should be represented by a mask and 8bpp for mask pixels
> is more than enough for representing font with fully opaque/fully
> transparent and semi-transparent pixels. What you doing with rest 24
> bits?
>
>   
>>  I can understand people not using it because they prefer FreeType. But I
>> can't understand how can somebody prefer those ugly fonts...
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Juan Vuletich
>>
>>  Adrian Lienhard wrote:
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>>     
>>> Hey, that's cool!
>>>
>>> For those that don't have the time to load the code, here is a screenshot
>>>       
>> (sorry for the additional traffic, but since there was no other response to
>> this mail, I think it's appropriate ;) )
>>     
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> ...Screenshot removed...
>>>
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>>>
>>> One thing I noticed is that in the text panes, for selected code the
>>>       
>> keyboard shortcuts do not work and the usual context menu is missing.
>>     
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>> BTW: I still have a problem loading or updating to versions beyond
>>>       
>> Pinesoft-Widgets-gvc.301.mcz (even if there are no windows opened when
>> loading, which we do using MC config maps). I get an emergency debugger from
>> which the image cannot recover.
>>     
>>>
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