From: BERNARD Sebastien <sebastien.bernard@cegetel.fr>
  To  : 'ggi-develop@eskimo.com' <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:47:35 +0200

RE: GgiPuts and Co...

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De:	becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de [SMTP:becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de]
> Date:	mardi 27 avril 1999 14:15
> À:	ggi-develop@eskimo.com
> Objet:	Re: GgiPuts and Co...
> 
> Hi !
> 
> > I was just looking at the ggiPuts sources...
> > I saw that the character/string output is rather minimalistic...
> 
> Yes. ggiPuts is intended as some kind of "emergency fallback".
> 
> You should not try to read 8x8 fonts at 1600x1200 .-).
> 
> > I was wondering if it could be a Good Thing (TM) that one could use
> > tranparently some rasterizing libs like freetype engine or t1lib engine 
> > to output some texts on the screen.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Someone should write a LibGFE (general font extension) for LibGGI.
> 
> C'mon - it's not hard. Someone make up an API proposal for it.
> 
> If needed, I even volunteer to set up an extension tree for it. Should 
> be pretty trivial, as few targets will accelerate drawing fonts.
	[BERNARD Sebastien]  I'm not so comfortable with the extension
trees. 
	I should look harder at the source.

> > Should'nt be so hard to do.
> 
> Yes. Though having a nicely working LibGGI2D and LibBSE (pun intended :-)
> aka Bob-and-Sprite-Extension might help for drawing curves and caching
> glyphs.
	[BERNARD Sebastien]  What is the status of the LibGGI2D ?
	Don't want to start another project from scratch. Maybe a port could
be rather quick
	Is there any pointers to documentation ? I didn't know about the
libBSE.

> CU, Andy
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Beck              |  Email :  <Andreas.Beck@ggi-project.org>