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Re: Future Unicode support

Date 2012-03-25 16:43 +0100
From Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Future Unicode support
Message-ID <65440d7652.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <almarsoft.6419659065395120605@news.orange.fr> <22fa217552.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <d2962f7552.beeb@ron1954.woosh.co.nz> <f6daac7552.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <e643067652.beeb@ron1954.woosh.co.nz>

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In message <e643067652.beeb@ron1954.woosh.co.nz>
 on 25 Mar 2012 Ron  wrote:

> I dont have anything against outline fonts, the current situation I have
> is, that the display is worse than a BBC when typing even a single
> character.

It really is an implementation problem in the application.  It is possible to
get rid of flicker if the application is written correctly.  I have made
quite a few improvements to redraw in Impact where the code had taken the
lazy option of re-rendering the whole window content -- there's still scope
for improvement!

Perhaps you'd better name the editor!

And in the bitmap versus outline debate, remember that the system has a font
cache, which stores the outline font characters as bitmaps to allow faster
font rendering.  Background font blending onto varying-colour backgrounds
rather does away with any speed improvement, but with older applications this
is unlikely to have been turned on, unless it is forced by using SpecialFX.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 07:22 +0100
  Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 07:07 +0000
    Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 14:24 +0100
      Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 20:53 +0000
        Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-24 12:21 +1300
          Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 05:42 +0100
            Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-24 22:53 +1300
              Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 14:12 +0100
            Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 22:11 +0000
              Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-25 12:50 +0200
          Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-24 22:10 +0000
            Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-26 03:26 +1300
              Re: Future Unicode support Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-25 16:43 +0100
              Re: Future Unicode support Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 00:39 +0200
                Re: Future Unicode support Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-03-26 12:18 +1300

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