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Author Re: X-less Bitmap - cross-platform, cross-language ?
Mat Ballard

2005-08-24, 9:58 pm

g'day theo,

i'm wading through your code at the moment, trying to understand it better.

one thing that i'm wondering: any idea how difficult it would be to make it work
under:

1. Windows
2. Lazarus / Free Pascal ?


cheers,



Mat
theo

2005-08-25, 8:02 am


>
> one thing that i'm wondering: any idea how difficult it would be to make
> it work under:
>
> 1. Windows
> 2. Lazarus / Free Pascal ?


The decoding part (uXLBitmap, uXlessFont) should work with little or no
modifications under any of these if you have the font-files because
there are no VCL/CLX dependencies.

The encoding part is very Kylix/Linux specific. It uses libXft and Qt.
But it is only about painting the Glyphs and getting the Font-Metrics.
So this could be changed to fit the desired environment. Note that the
dependency on uAntiAliasControl (libXft) is an extra step for getting
anti-aliased fonts under Kylix which is not necessary under Delphi/Win.

Theo
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