[ft] On the fly switching of modes - info request.

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Hello

I am looking at using something like the Infinality patches to Freetype as the 
basis for a desktop environment for developing webfonts, i.e. i' want the 
ability of switching types of hinting & antaliasing in Freetype to 'emulate' 
different OS rendering states. So i can test fonts for different OS states from 
one desktop.

Ideally i want to have a small widget that, with a menu + mouse click, can 
switch rendering modes on the fly - like the gnome 'appearance - fonts' 
switcher but able to tweak a lot more than just hinting, antialias, simple lcd 
filter.

So... are there any aspects of the Freetype rendering engine that cannot be 
switched on the fly? What needs restart of the x-server?

Any advice / info much appreciated.

many thanks

vernon