Re: widthflag in enhanced text mode

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 07:59 am, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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> After a review of the code of the enhanced text mode, I think the
> 'widthflag' argument is never used (I mean it's always true). It's a
> flag which is told to mean that the size of the character to draw must
> not be taken into account if it's set to false.

As you state, this flag indicates whether or not the current text
position should be set at the beginning (FALSE) or end (TRUE) of
the string being passed.  This flag is set to FALSE in order to
overprint text (enhanced text mode symbol '~').

See line 2507 of term.c


	Ethan














> The code in term.c=20
> (enhanced_recursion) just propagates its value without modifying it, and
> terminals initialize it to true. For example, see post.trm
> (ENHPS_put_text). It may be interesting to remove this flag... It may
> help me (and other terminal developpers) to avoid to implement useless
> code ;-) ... and maybe to avoid possible errors ...
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> Any idea about this ? (Ethan A Merritt especially, as it was you who
> abstracted this text mode)
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> Best regards,
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> Timoth=E9e Lecomte
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