Pango in 7.7.1

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Annick Fron <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

I am unable to use Pango in 7.7.1.

I would like to run e test such as this one :

===

| window composite bloc aString layout width height taille |

window := ApplicationWindow new.

composite := CompositePart new.

window component: composite.

aString := 'Bonjour, le monde'.

bloc := VisualBlock block: 

[:gc :box |

gc newCairoContextWhile: 

[:aCR |

layout := aCR newLayout alignCenter.

" fontDescriptionString: 'Arial, 9.2';"

taille := 16 * 0.815.

layout fontDescriptionString: 'Arial, ' , taille printString.

layout text: aString.

width := layout width.

height := layout height.

aCR source: ColorValue darkGreen.

aCR moveTo: 10 @ 10.

layout showOn: aCR.

aCR rectangle: (10 @ 10 extent: (Point x: width y: height)).

aCR stroke]]

bounds: (0 @ 0 extent: 30 @ 40).

composite add: bloc.

window openWithExtent: 800 @ 600

=============

I get a failure on loading the library.

Annick, if you are trying to use the packaged parcel and precompiled library, you don't have Pango support. Unfortunately. The way the libraries were/are built, makes it impossible for pango libraries you might download to work with the cairo one.

If you want to use the full pango/cairo stack on Windows, my current recommendation is to download the whole stack from gtk. I've wrapped them all up as a zip which you can download:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8893516/win32CairoPango.zip

Then you need to make sure the various xxxxLibrary methods point to those names. For example, the cairo library in that drop is called libcairo-2.dll, rather than cairo.dll. The 7.8 versions of the packages that are in the repository right now, probably work with 7.7.1. I'm not in a position to download stock 7.7.1 for windows right now to test for sure, but I can't think of any changes I made to those, that were specific to 7.8 changes.

One thing you need/should change in your example, is the first line to read:

layout := Pango.Layout default alignCenter.

HTH

--
Travis Griggs
(<sarcasm>sent from this mail application I love so much</sarcasm>)

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