Re: [Tuxpaint-i18n] Fwd: Tux Paint 'Text' tool Input Method support - can you help!?

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:50:02AM -0700, Ed Montgomery wrote:
> Good news! :-)  (Although some tweaking is still
> required.)
> 
> Have attached a screenshot of Thai input working! :-)
> Taken using Garuda(Bold) font, and also works with
> FreeSerif(Medium) font, under Kubuntu, etc.

Glad to hear!


> Take a look at the following copied from my terminal
> for compiling/testing/etc.  Compiling and linking did
> not seem to give any error, but on execution of the
> binary, it could not find the th.im file in the
> /usr/local/share/tuxpaint/im directory.  Once I copied
> the file from the src directory where it compiled to
> the local/share directory, then it loaded, executed
> and operated as expected.  

Did you do a "sudo make install"?  It should have installed th.im for you
(the 'install' target depends on the 'install-im' target, which does
the actual copying of those files).

PS - As you probably saw, I'm converting Tux Paint to use SDL_Pango
instead of SDL_TTF.

The former is an SDL wrapper around the Pango rendering library
(discussed on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pango and
lives here: http://www.pango.org/ ).  The former is a simple wrapper
around FreeType2 (and lives here: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/ ),
and doesn't do the more complex internationalization stuff.  (Hence broken
Arabic translations, for example.)

I'm curious to see how Thai stands up to the new SDL_Pango stuff.
I'm guessing if it rendered ok before, it should continue to render ok
with Pango.

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-bill!
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