Re: [Fwd: Aborted but useful fonts mangling]

Hi Rob,
        Can you outline how to test this code and how one sees the bug
you need a fix for?

Thanks!

Martin

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 00:14 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Aborted but useful
> fonts mangling"
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Rob Taylor <rob.taylor@codethink.co.uk>
> > To: uwog@uwog.net
> > Subject: Aborted but useful fonts mangling
> > Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:16:07 +0100
> >
> > So:
> >
> > 21:53 <@uwog> robtaylor: what are you trying to do anyway?
> > 21:54 < robtaylor> uwog: well, i've written some code to add 'virtual'
> > font entries whenever you look up a font and get a different family back
> > 21:54 <@uwog> ah joy.. tricky front code
> > 21:54 < robtaylor> uwog: so when you load a .doc file with ,say Arial
> > in, you get an Arial entry in the font list that corresponds to whatever
> > fontconfig decided to
> > substitute for it
> > 21:55 <@uwog> quite a nice idea!
> >
> >
> > The problem being, in ev_UnixToolbar.cpp:922
> > // for now, we never repopulate, so can just toss it
> > DELETEP(pControl);
> >
> > To fix: _wd in ev_UnixToolbar.cpp would probably keep a hold of the
> > control and controls would need a way of signalling to refresh the
> > actual implementation.
> >
> > BTW, the patch is against 2.4.6, not svn, but I guess it'll apply
> > cleanly against svn.
> >
> > Please keep me CC'd in on any progress :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
Received on Thu Aug 9 08:03:54 2007