[GRASS-dev] iconv a required dependency for using Freetype?

[Michael Barton]

In wxPython, I've switched to a scrolling listbox whose items are built from
the output of d.font -l. It seems to work fine and should work on all
platforms because it does not require a full, absolute path, but builds from
whatever is in the new freetypecap + stroke fonts.

I was planning to do the same with TclTk, since this seems the most robust
approach and likely to remain stable regardless of other font management
changes. Any reason not to do so?

Michael


On 5/7/07 5:01 PM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 May 2007, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Paul Kelly wrote:
>>> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Glynn Clements wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've attached a diff of a few more changes I'm considering making, mostly
>>> relating to path and filename handling for Windows compatibility in
>>> loading fonts. Here's what I've changed so far:
>>> 
>>> lib/driver/Font.c, COM_Font_get():
>>> * Cross-platform check for absolute path (new gislib function added)
>>> * Check for pathname matching the GRASS stroke fonts made more robust by
>>>    (a) First converting all directory separator characters to '/'
>>>    (b) Doing a case-insensitive comparison
>> 
>> That last point is probably safe, in that you're unlikely to have
>> another directory which differs only in case on Unix.
>> 
>> Although, in this case, I'd be inclined to simply remove the option to
>> specify a stroke font using a full path. Personally, I doubt that this
>> feature would ever be used.
> 
> I've done that now. Discovered that gis.m doesn't rely on this and strips
> the path itself, so it should be safe. And removes a lot of ugly code too
> which is good. So if an absolute path is supplied, it assumes it's a
> Freetype-compatible font. An interim solution, but one which (along with
> the new G_is_absolute_path() function) gets font selection working
> on Windows.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

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