Pango errors?

[Stefan Kost]

On 08/31/11 21:04, wally_bkg wrote:
> Stefan Kost wrote:
>> On 08/31/11 14:45, wally bkg wrote:
>>> Any idea how to fix these?  I'm getting these "randomly" a third or
>>> fourth time I run my program on some systems:
>>>
>>> Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly
>>> output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Mono 18'
>> One thing to do is to use a colon to delimit name and size. 'DejaVu Sans
>> Mono,18'.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
> Thanks, but I'm not clear on where I'd do this as I'm just using the default
> font and size, so presumably
>
> 'DejaVu Sans Mono,18' is the default font.
I see, that weird then.
> All I'm doing is:
>
>     g_assert( tover = gst_element_factory_make ("timeoverlay", "tover"));
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover), "halign", "right", NULL);	// set overlay
> properties
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover), "valign", "top", NULL);
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover), "text", "R:", NULL);
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover), "ypad", 0, NULL);

btw. do multiple sets in one go, thats faster.

g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover), "halign", "right",
                                "valign", "top",
                               ...
                               NULL);


Stefan
>     g_assert( tover1 = gst_element_factory_make ("timeoverlay", "tover1"));
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover1), "halign", "right", NULL);
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover1), "valign", "top", NULL);
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover1), "text", "L:", NULL);
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover1), "ypad", 0, NULL);
>
>     g_assert( tover2 = gst_element_factory_make ("timeoverlay", "tover2"));
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover2), "ypad", 0, NULL);
>     g_object_set (G_OBJECT (tover2), "text", "  Stream:", NULL);
>
> Is the default font system dependent?  I've never seen the issue on some
> systems at all.  What would be the safest font to use?  I've never really
> cared about fonts as long as its readable.
>
>
>
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