Re: Font structure needs name change

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2001, Hans Breuer wrote:

> At 14:32 07.07.01 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
>>
>>To get the list of fonts from X for FreeType, I need to include Xlib.h,
>>but that defines a Font struct.  I will need to rename the Font structure
>>to DiaFont.  Stand by for mass renaming.  I wish I had a refactoring
>>editor:)
>>
> Or even better C++:
> namespace X {
> #include "XLib.h"
> }

Would be nice, wouldn't it?  

> Why can't you use the XListFonts (and XFreeFonts) surrogates defined by
> the gtk-1.3-win32-production branch which work on string lists too and
> are rather portable ? They are called
> gdk_font_list_new/gdk_font_list_free and can be implemented as simple
> wrappers on X.

Because I need to get at the actual filenames, not just font names, to feed
to FreeType.  Currently, I'm looking at XGetFontPath to get it.

-Lars

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