How does text display take place
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Jun 6 05:31:23 UTC 2005
Hi -
You are not looking at the right places by far. Depending on where you
want to hook in you should be looking at either the Canvas string/text
display methods (high-level entry points) or the AbstractFont/BitBlt
displayString: methods (low-level entry points).
Cheers,
- Andreas
Himanshu Garg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking at DisplayText, Paragraph, TextStyle, Text
> classes but haven't so far been able to locate the method that does
> the real display, i.e. take the bitmap from the font for a character,
> put it somewhere, take the next put it somewhere.
>
> Could you tell me if I am not looking at the right places or I
> have missed some method. If you remember having seen tutorial or book
> chapter that gives the big picture, that would also be helpful.
>
> I am trying to show Telugu ( a left to write script, that requires
> script shaping )text in Squeak using the Operating System support with
> FFI-Examples-Win32's classes.
>
> I would be grateful for some pointers and/or suggestions.
>
> Thank You,
> Himanshu.
>
>
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