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Subject: Re: multifont?

Re: multifont?

From: Nils <deathtoallhumans_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:08:14 +0700

On 2/11/10, Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I now have a patch which works and is almost finished, but it uses
> separate buffers for each font (coming from the skin buffer, not new
> buffers) which I feel is a good enough solution until someone comes
> along and does the work to make it all into one buffer.
>
How are these buffers allocated? If they only use whatever free space
there is in the skinbuffer we might get into trouble if they get too
small and cause a spinup on almost any text drawing. Is there a limit
to how many fonts can be used in a theme?
Which also brings me to the biggest argument for the unified buffer,
even if i understand you nor anyone else is eager to implement it.
That if you use a lot of glyphs from one font and only a few from
another you either waste a lot of memory or spin the disk a lot.

Nils
Received on 2010-02-12

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