Re: re: TrueType font support and 3.6

[email protected] wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   I got lost.  Anyway
> 
> > When I looked over Yoshikis code I found these things you have mentioned
> > and more and mailed him about them (isKindOf:, dead method, missing
> > comments etc etc). He liked the review and said he was going to fix
> > things. The isKindOf: was for example intentional IIRC because he tried
> > to not change some things (keeping this stuff a bit "local").
> 
>   The conversation was that you (Göran) suggested to delegate the
> responsibility to the font somehow, but I didn't quite agree with it
> because it would introduce bi-directional dependency.

Right, sorry - my memory failed. Anyway - there *was* a reason. But
perhaps that reason is less interesting if this goes into the image/same
package?

> > BUT I personally want code cleaned up before going in! And I am not
> > talking about complicated things here - simply a bit more comments,
> > remove dead method and some other cruft etc. 30 minutes work tops -
> > mostly comments actually.
> 
>   Well, it is a bit (way) more than 30 minutes for me...

Fine. I still don't want uncommented code into the base classes! :-) But
I assume you agree with me on that.

>   I have another rough code that adds "streaming feature" to
> TrueTypeTextStyle in which the system doesn't have to pre-create the
> TTGlyphs.  When a bitmap for a character is requested, the glyph is
> created from a file stream associated with the .ttf file.  But I guess
> I should defer to integrate (and clean up) this part.
> 
> -- Yoshiki

Good work btw, we all look forward seeing this getting in.

regards, Göran