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Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The patch for ugetx() const-correctness has not yet been applied, and I
> have a new patch - a rewrite of the font subsystem. A quick summary:
Did anyone have a problem with this? I'm assuming the only
compatibility problems are with programs that touch the FONT
structure directly.
> - could somebody please reformat it? I still haven't figured out
> Allegro's system...
ahack._tx explains it pretty well.
(I wrote more, but it got a bit silly so I put it here:
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~tjaden/dev/allegrostyle.txt
)
> And a quick note: If you create a font which has glyphs of different
> heights, using the current Allegro system, text_height() may return the
> wrong height (it returns the height of the first glyph in the first
> range). My patch doesn't change this behaviour. Should I fix it?
How would it be fixed? Go through the entire range and find the
maximum height? Would that be slow? How often do glyphs have
different heights?
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