[cairo] cairomm - userfonts

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 13:11 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 00:49 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 22:36 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> > > I started to read the cairomm code today because I am interested in
> > > coding the userfont cairomm binding but I faced the following problem:
> > > how do we deal with callbacks when writting a binding? I need to give
> > > to cairo a callback to a class method since cairo is written in C, how
> > > would it deal with the instance pointer (this) ?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm no binding expert, but I believe the idea is that you can use the
> > user_data mechanism to attach arbitrary data to cairo objects.  In this
> > case see cairo_scaled_font_set_user_data.  You would stuff your method
> > and instance pointers into a struct and hook it to user_data, then
> > attach a callback that retrieves that user_data and calls the actual
> > callback...
> 
> Yes, look for SignalProxy* in .ccg files in gtkmm. For instance,
> SignalProxy_Visible_gtk_callback here:
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gtkmm/trunk/gtk/src/treemodelfilter.ccg?view=markup
> (SignalProxy is not a great prefix for those really, but nevermind).
> 
> I don't know if we had any need for this in cairomm already, but I guess
> we do for this new API.
> 
> But exactly what callback do you mean. Could you name a specific cairo
> function, please?

Cairo user-font API is new 1.8 stuff.  In no released cairo version yet.

The interesting part is:


typedef cairo_status_t (*cairo_user_scaled_font_init_func_t) (cairo_scaled_font_t  *scaled_font,
                                                              cairo_font_extents_t *extents);

typedef cairo_status_t (*cairo_user_scaled_font_render_glyph_func_t) (cairo_scaled_font_t  *scaled_font,
                                                                      unsigned long         glyph,
                                                                      cairo_t              *cr,
                                                                      cairo_text_extents_t *extents);

typedef cairo_status_t (*cairo_user_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs_func_t) (cairo_scaled_font_t   *scaled_font,
                                                                        const char            *utf8,
                                                                        cairo_glyph_t        **glyphs,
                                                                        int                   *num_glyphs);

typedef cairo_status_t (*cairo_user_scaled_font_unicode_to_glyph_func_t) (cairo_scaled_font_t *scaled_font,
                                                                          unsigned long        unicode,
                                                                          unsigned long       *glyph_index);


/* User-font method setters */

cairo_public void
cairo_user_font_face_set_init_func (cairo_font_face_t                  *font_face,
                                    cairo_user_scaled_font_init_func_t  init_func);

cairo_public void
cairo_user_font_face_set_render_glyph_func (cairo_font_face_t                          *font_face,
                                            cairo_user_scaled_font_render_glyph_func_t  render_glyph_func);

cairo_public void
cairo_user_font_face_set_text_to_glyphs_func (cairo_font_face_t                            *font_face,
                                              cairo_user_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs_func_t  text_to_glyphs_func);

cairo_public void
cairo_user_font_face_set_unicode_to_glyph_func (cairo_font_face_t                              *font_face,
                                                cairo_user_scaled_font_unicode_to_glyph_func_t  unicode_to_glyph_func);

/* User-font method getters */

cairo_public cairo_user_scaled_font_init_func_t
cairo_user_font_face_get_init_func (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

cairo_public cairo_user_scaled_font_render_glyph_func_t
cairo_user_font_face_get_render_glyph_func (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

cairo_public cairo_user_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs_func_t
cairo_user_font_face_get_text_to_glyphs_func (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

cairo_public cairo_user_scaled_font_unicode_to_glyph_func_t
cairo_user_font_face_get_unicode_to_glyph_func (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

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