Suggestion of patch for libXaw3d-1.6.1

[walter harms]

This looks interessting, did you try this with Xaw also ?

re,
 wh


Am 04.03.2012 22:51, schrieb Jean-Pierre Demailly:
> Hi:
> 
> Please find enclosed a suggestion of patch for libXaw3d-1.6.1 (actually 
> for the current git version that has an additional one line bug fix), 
> along with two new files Xaw3dXft.h and Xaw3dXft.c - you will also find 
> a tarball of the patched version at
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/libxaw3dxft/libXaw3dXft-1.6.2.tar.bz2
> 
> The main goal of this patch is to enable truetype fonts and UTF8 strings
> in libXaw3d, using freetype routines (-lXft -lfontconfig required).
> 
> By default, libXaw3dXft-1.6.2 should behave exactly as libXaw3d-1.6.1 (with 
> the minor one line bug fix already mentioned). More precisely, it should be 
> completely upward source compatible with libXaw3d-1.6.1 (but probably not
> binary compatible for apps using extensively the toolkit).
> 
> New features can be enabled by setting ad hoc parameters, the default 
> values of which are :
> 
> char Xaw3dXftEncoding = 0;
> char Xaw3dXftStringHilight = 0;
> char Xaw3dXftStringUsePixmap = 0;
> char Xaw3dXftMenuSpacing = 1;
> char Xaw3dXftShowTips = 1;
> char Xaw3dXftTipDoGrab = 1;
> char Xaw3dXftBorderHack = 1;
> char Xaw3dXftNoHilitReverse = 0;
> char Xaw3dXftButtonInverse = 1;
> char Xaw3dXftButtonDashed = 0;
> char Xaw3dXftMultiColumnMenu = 0;
> 
> Pixel Xaw3dXftTipBackgroundColor = -1; /* disabled */
> char * Xaw3dXftHilitColor = NULL;  /* disabled */
> unsigned short Xaw3dXftInsensitiveTwist[4] = { 0, 0, 0, 0};  /* disabled */
> 
> char * Xaw3dXftDefaultFontName = NULL;
> XftFont * Xaw3dXftDefaultFont = NULL;
> 
> The main parameter is Xaw3dXftEncoding. When it is set to 0, the X core font
> protocol is used. When it is set to -1 (i.e. 255), freetype is used along
> with utf8 encoding. Other values are
>   Xaw3dXftEncoding = 8  ( 8 bit encodings with freetype)
>   Xaw3dXftEncoding = 16 (16 bit encodings with freetype)
> 
> The fonts should be specified in fontconfig notation by setting the 
>   *xftFont: XXXX
> resource values (or by setting the global Xaw3dXftDefaultFontName which is
> then used as the default font in case none is defined); freetype has the 
> additional benefit of selecting a fallback font in case the selected
> one does not exist or cannot be loaded.
> 
> Som apps using the modified library can be found at
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/xaw3dxft-progs/
> Xpaint invokes almost all new features ; its look and fill is then
> somewhat closer to what would give a GTK app, especially libXaw3dXft 
> provides antialiased fonts and UTF8 strings throughout the GUI. Another
> app that can be compiled that way is xtide-2.13-RC2-jpd.tar.bz2 (a very
> slight modification of xtide-2.13-RC2 by David Flater); xtide shows an
> example of multicolumn menus implementation (click on the year box
> in the "set time" menu).
> 
> Notice that multicolumn menus are now available with plain libXaw, but not 
> in libXaw3d which was forked before this feature was introduced in libXaw. 
> In libXaw3dXft multicolumn menus only work when 
>   Xaw3dXftNoHilitReverse = 1;
>   Xaw3dXftMultiColumnMenu = 1;
> are set (so they won't work in the default mode, some more changes
> in the ThreeD routines would be needed for that).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jean-Pierre Demailly
> (xpaint developer/maintainer)
> 
> 
> 
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