gEDA-dev: libstroke testing

[Peter Clifton]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 16:07 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:31:02 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > Not directly, but it will via GTK. (Gtk uses pango for text rendering in
> > widgets such as labels etc..).
> 
> If gschem uses GTK for labels, wouldn't it be trivial to switch to an 
> antialiased font? IMHO this would not only look better, but improve 
> readability when zoomed out. 

I'm not sure what you mean. GTK widgets render label text themselves,
gschem's work area is a pixmap which we paint onto.

If you're meaning we should use Pango to paint text onto that work area,
then I believe we're into the grounds of religious battle.

The only thing which might be difficult with Pango is the XOR drawing
when dragging things about. Gschem doesn't have a concept of "damage" to
other objects.

Peter