Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Important milestone

[Fabien C. <fab...@go...>]

I just migrated most of the plugins to using QFont.
I also took the liberty to make some little changes to some of them so
that they better use the new painter API. I hope you don't mind.

It would be nice to have the telescope control plugin in the SVN as well.

Fabien

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:29, Fabien
Chéreau<fab...@go...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I cannot reproduce Matthew's font bug. I will attempt a windows build
> later today.
> In the mean time I migrate the other plugins to QFont.
> Fabien
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 00:51, Barry Gerdes<bar...@ho...> wrote:
>> Hi Fabien
>>
>> I did a Windows build on 4857. It sure loads fast now and the font problem I
>> had with the SiS display of the start splash screen has gone.
>>
>> I can confirm Mathew's findings on the star labels. It appears to be
>> alternating between two labelling systems. This appears to cause oscillating
>> double labels and flashing lines under some labels. All labels are not
>> affected.
>>
>> I note that none of the plugins work any more. Is someone going to upgrade
>> all the modules to use Qfont. It is beyond me.
>>
>> Other than this the changes seem to be good.
>>
>>
>> Barry Gerdes
>> Beaumont Hills Observatory
>> S 33' 41' 44"    E 150' 56' 32"
>> 12" F10 GPS Polar mounted
>> Home Page  http://www.geocities.com/barrykgerdes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: fab...@go...
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:12:55 +0200
>>> To: ste...@li...
>>> Subject: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Important milestone
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> In the recent weeks I did some important work on the core of Stellarium:
>>>
>>> 1- Text drawing (in the sky):
>>> The most important change that I just committed is the migration of
>>> our home made text drawing system (StelFont and co) to Qt text
>>> drawing. This completely fixed many bug of text display for right to
>>> left languages, for arabic ligatures, for asian characters etc.. This
>>> also allowed me to get rid of 6 source files and to simplify the messy
>>> code which tried to find out which font was to use for each language.
>>> Now Qt handles that by itself :) As a result the look of some text
>>> slightly changed, please report any problems and try to tune the font
>>> settings so that they look better.
>>> This is a major API change which had to be done before release 1.0.0.
>>> It will break pretty much all plugins. The proper way to migrate your
>>> code is to replace "StelFont*" with "QFont". To display text, first
>>> set the font to be used by StelPainter (setFont() method), then call
>>> the StelPainter::drawText() method.
>>>
>>> 2- Removal of glBegin/end and other deprecated openGL 3.1 commands
>>> I have been working on this continuously since some months, and a side
>>> result of using vertex array instead of glBegin/end is that the
>>> display is faster :) This is not yet finished though, but most of the
>>> work remaining is isolated in StelPainter.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Fabien
>