[GRASS-dev] XDRIVER

[roger at spinn.net]

Regarding R_get_text_box(), in all of my tests the width of the text box was 
wrong. 

Also, main.c in d.text.new (6.4.0RC5) contains the comment 

    /* TODO: get text dimension */
    /* R_get_text_box() does not work with rotation and returns a little bit
     * bigger dimension than actual text size */ 

I don't know the vintage of that comment.  The problem isn't consistent; 
neither d.vect nor d.labels seems to have the same problem, so it was likely 
to be some detail of my implementation that I was never able to find and 
fix. 


Roger 


Glynn Clements writes: 

> 
> roger at spinn.net wrote: 
> 
>> I'm aware that XDRIVER is antiquated piece of software that the project does 
>> not intend to use for it's primary display or interactive tool.  I have two 
>> main questions (and maybe some to follow up):  
>> 
>> Does the project intend to retain XDRIVER in the distribution?  
>> 
>> Are there any plans to update or upgrade XDRIVER? 
> 
> No. Monitors (display drivers as separate processes) have been removed
> entirely (and permanently) from 7.0. 
> 
> There doesn't seem to be much point in making significant changes in
> 6.x, given that it's a dead end. Also, monitors (all monitors, not
> just XDRIVER) don't work on Windows. 
> 
> I'm not sure what problems you were having with R_get_text_box(), but
> if we can identify a bug, that should be fixed. 
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>