From: tomasfrydrych@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 09:01:08 EDT
> Hi Tomas,
> We're having trouble understanding the work you did in the
> Win32Graphics class with bidi. Can you look at the email's in the
> win32graphics thread and offer some comments/advice?
>
> Your help would be really appreciated.
Hi Martin,
I had a brief look at the archive, the only thing I found was concerning
the call to GetCharacterPlacement() ...
The call to GetCharacterPlacement() is required on versions of Win32
that _have_ a built-in bidi support to avoid the system reordering the
text we pass to it on input (which has been already reordered by us in
the layout engine).
This call _does_not_ effect the layout in any way, it only translates the
character codes to glyph indices which are then passed to
ExtTextOut(), together with the character positioning information in
pCharAdvances. The pCharAdvances information has to be (and is)
used in all calls to ExtTextOut().
The test for placementResult is simply a test for success of the call to
GetCharacterPlacement(), and must stay there because if the call fails,
we do not have character indices to feed to ExtTextOut() and have to
use the original characters instead.
Hope this helps.
Tomas
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed Sep 17 2003 - 09:15:39 EDT