[Mono-winforms-list] libgdiplus pango patch

[Jonathan Anderson]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has had a chance to look at my patch submitted 
last week yet.  Any and all feedback is appreciated, and if I need to do 
some more work to get this accepted, I just need to know what to do. 
Should I create a bug in the tracker to help track the work on complex 
script support?

Thanks,
Jonathan Anderson

Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> I mentioned earlier that I was doing work to get pango support working 
> properly in libgdiplus.  Here's a patch with my work so far.  Most of 
> the formatting options are supported, but some of them aren't (like 
> digit substitution), and some are not fully supported (like certain 
> string trimming behavior).  I did my best to match gdi+ behavior as seen 
> on Windows for things like white space trimming, new lines, wrapping, 
> etc.  I've tested most of the options that I worked on with the 
> exception of tab stops.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> I'm getting ready to do work on the TextBox control to get it to handle 
> complex scripts better as well.  This will most likely end up in putting 
> some pango and uniscribe (for Windows) calls in the TextBoxTextRenderer 
> class.  One question I have about this, is would it be possible to have 
> the Windows TextBox use pango?  I know that pango on windows will pass 
> things through to uniscribe, and it would be easier to not have to use 
> two different text rendering backends if possible.
> 
> Jonathan Anderson
>