On 06/16/07 16:29, Anssi Hannula wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 06/15/07 18:07, Anssi Hannula wrote: >>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>>> On 06/10/07 17:53, Anssi Hannula wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>> Alternatively, you could use the fontconfig library [1] for managing >>>>> fonts. This would also allow using using the system default fonts via >>>>> aliases like 'sans-serif' etc, and using a font list instead of having >>>>> to manually write the font filename via OSD. >>>>> >>>>> You can get a quick idea from looking at the patch which added >>>>> fontconfig support for mplayer [2], though of course you should look in >>>>> fontconfig documentation instead of copying conventions from mplayer :) >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://fontconfig.org/ >>>>> [2] >>>>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-November/022218.html >>>> When I do >>>> >>>> const char *font_name = "sans-serif"; >>>> FcInit(); >>>> FcPattern *fc_pattern = FcNameParse((FcChar8 *)font_name); >>> While fontconfig is usually configured to ignore bitmap fonts anyway, I >>> think you should enforce that by putting this call here: >>> FcPatternAddBool(fc_pattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue); >> Thanks. > > Actually, I was wrong here. This won't guarantee anything, as the > preference priorities of parameters is predefined, and the family name > and, apparently, various other parameters (which are actually left at > their defaults) are given a priority over the font being scalable. I was > hit with this when trying to select FC_FAMILY "Utopia", and it kept > returning the non-scalable version, even though a scalable version with > the same name is available. > > Solution is given here: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-March/002165.html > > So it is doable, but you have to use FcFontSort() ( > http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/fontconfig_3.html#SEC20 > ), which returns a similar FcFontSet as the FcFontList() which is used > for the font listing, but this time the fonts are ordered according to > the closeness of match, allowing you to pick the first font with > FC_SCALABLE being true. > > [...] > > I don't know if you have noticed / thought of these already, but few tips: > - For the fixed-size font list, you can use a match of FC_SPACING being > FC_MONO so that non-monospace fonts are not listed. > - Have a "default" (or "system default") font setting in the font list, > which causes VDR to use the default aliases instead of user-specified font Since you're apparently getting more and more familiar with this, maybe you could provide a complete code sequence that does this: - list all available fonts, as in "Arial", "Verdana", "Times New Roman", ... - optionally list only monospaced fonts - make sure there are only scalable fonts (i.e. ones that freetype can use) - if possible, give information on whether a particular font is available as "bold" and/or "italic >From the setup menu I'd like to be able to call a function that delivers a list of font names (much like it's currently done with the actual font file names) that looks like Arial Arial:bold Arial:italic Arial:bold:italic Verdana Verdana:bold Verdana:italic ... I would prepend that list with sans-serif:bold sans-serif courier:bold for the three default fonts. Finally, such a string should be useable to select an actual font file. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
