Re: Font size and screen resolution

["Ben A. Hetland" <ben a hetland sintef no>]

On 30 Jan 2002, Lars Clausen wrote, quoting himself:
>
> On 30 Jan 2002, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jason Maiorana wrote:
[...snip...]
>>> Out of curiousity, could you go into a little detail about the
>>> difficulty you are having with freetype.
>>
>> Absolutely!  Any help is welcome:)
>>
>> All the fun is in lib/font.c, inside #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE.  In
>> freetype_load_string(), I manage to find the size of the string, and that
[...snip..]
>
> This has now been fixed, it was some pointer error that I'd missed
> (freetype does a great job of totally confusing the user about what is a
> pointer and what is not:).  I can now render the text, except it's
inverted
> and longer than it should be:)

I this a good example of solving one's problem while trying to explain it to
others? I don't know how many times I have discovered my own [coding]
mistakes just as I was trying to explain to a colleague what I couldn't get
working...

:-)

-+-Ben-+-