[UI] Diff tools.

[Igor Stasenko]

2008/4/16 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:
> 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.
>

Yes, but that means that font will look fine only if you render black
text on white background.
For the rest 2^32-1 (font color variants) such representation is
completely broken.

>  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 .
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.