Re: New release of libart/freetype-backend

[Adam Fedor]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> > > GSSet(Stroke,Fill)(Color,Colorspace)
> > > aren't implemented since I don't know what they're supposed to do. None
> > > of the other backends implement them, and gui never uses them. Why do
> > > they exist?
> > That's for Quartz compatibilty. Quartz defines different colors for
> > stroking and filling, mostly for convienience I suppose. Also see some
> > of the GS functions in the Text section. I think some of this can be
> > implemented in gsc, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
>
> I'll get the pdf reference manual and see if I can figure out how
> they're supposed to work.

OK, but note that the methods in NSGraphicsContext don't necessarily 
consitute a Quartz interface, they just make it possible to implement 
one in the front end. For instance, Quartz has severl SetColorspace 
functions. I use OO to reduce this to one method plus a dictionary where 
you specify the values.



> My original plan was to start out by using freetype and switching to
> pango when I had a working version, ie. now, but when I started looking
> closer at that I noticed that Pango requires glib 2.0 :/. Having gnustep
> depend on glib seems wrong.

True, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel. We have plenty of other 
things to do.

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