Hi, Lucian Muresan wrote: > this is all very cool, such a pity I missed (by 2 or three days) sending > you my patches against 0.1.2-pre4 which are adding optional FreeType2 > support directly in the cFont class of glcdgraphics, and unlike the > current genfont also whith the freedom of choosing the desired character > encoding (that was one of the main reasons I started doing this, I want > to also display iso8859-2 encoded characters on the display, and I think > other users with EPG or localization in non-western-encoding languages > might like that, too), and no conversion is necessary, one can see right > away how the font sizes are fitting the plugin's display. That's sounds nice. I already thought about integrating ft2 rendering in the cFont class but dropped it for the first time because of the bad look when it comes to sizes smaller than 8 or 9. If it is working in parallel to the old font file stuff then I think it's worth integrating your code. > One other reason was that I wrote a "meta-driver" for LCD-proc 0.5 using > your graphlcd-base library, just like yo're using serdisplib to add a > few more supported displays by just one more driver, and I also sent you > 2 or 3 private emails around 17-18 january and I got no response at all. I just didn't had the time to anwser and then just forgot it. :) > At that time I had not yet started the freetype2 digging. > Anyway, it doesn't matter now. If you're interested I will rework my > modifications to fit the new version and send you the patches. That would be nice. > I still had some trouble with the layounting of FT2 fonts on the VDR > plugin's display (mine is 128x64), but as it is still "pre5" you might > want us to discuss those things after I'll send the patches? We will see. Andreas
