Re: Questions on Qt3/Windows

Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp <at> gmx.net> writes: 
 
>  
> Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> >  
> > I have a question regarding the Qt3/win-32 native port. 
> >  
> > You have mentioned that you have replaced the X11 functions with win32 
calls.  
> > Is this also applicable to text rendering, i.e., do you use the Uniscribe  
> > engine for shaping ? or is the qscriptengine_x11.cpp used for shaping in  
> > win32 also (as in Linux) ? 
> >  
> > Rajeev J Sebastian 
>  
> Hi Rajeev, 
>  
> we've ported the qscriptengine_x11.cpp, see qscriptengine_win.cpp, so we 
don't 
> use Uniscribe. As I understand it the x11 code is build to simulate the 
Uniscribe 
> behavior, but I'm not 100% sure. 
>  
> Peter 
>  
 
 
Hmm ... for some reason, I did not recieve this reply in my email and instead 
found this here. In any case, I thank you for the reply, that is also quite 
encouraging. Having a good shaping engine on Windows which we can extend is a 
must :) 
 
Hoping this never changes, 
Rajeev J Sebastian