(here is a message I posted on the wxWidgets forum, that someone here might have an idea about) [wx 2.4.0, redhat 7.3, gcc 2.96] Font sample cannot find scalable fonts on custom linux machine Hi, I am trying to use a True Type font in a wxWindows application running on linux. I'm also new to most of the technologies invloved, linux, wxWidgets, and KDrive (a slimmed down XFree86 build). My current application uses the KDrive/TinyX Xvesa Xserver built with XFree86 4.2.0 code. I upgraded to XFree86 4.5.0 because that version of KDrive/TinyX supports client-side scalable fonts. The bitmapped font currently used is either coming from KDrive or the wxWidgets software (I'm not sure which). The application is running on a device that uses a Red Hat 7.3 linux kernel, and a custom built RPL-image for diskless booting. Some files are not where a Unix app might expect to find them, which I think is what is causing my problem. The problem is, when I run the samples/font program on the device, it cannot find any fonts. When I use the font program to navigate to where the font files are stored, it says they do not have any "charset" information. I built the 'font' sample program on a normal Redhat 7.3 machine, and the sample font program was able to find the installed fonts. It only does not work when I run it on the PC-based device. I'm mostly curious how wxWindows finds the installed fonts, and if I need to tweak the source (or create some symlinks) to help it find them. My overall goal is to get the sample font program to display True Type fonts on the screen. I rebuilt the KDrive/TinyX server to support scalable TrueType fonts, and I added the fonts to the font directory - and did the appropriate other linux stuff (ttmkfdir, mkfontdir, etc). If I can get the font program to display scalable fonts on my Pc-device, then I will change my orginal program to use scalable fonts - with the expectation that it should work. My fonts.dir and fonts.alias are stored in a non-standard location, but KDrive is built with the "DefaultFontPath" changed accordingly. My fear is that wxWidows expects the font files to be in the normal unixy locations. The only fonts being used by my app are the default wxWindows fonts, with some text being displayed with a request to use the "smallest" font. thanks for any ideas! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
