[squeak-dev] FreeTypePlus integration status

> Hi -
>
> I'm sure most of you have seen what I've been up to on the weekend. I did
> a round of integration work on Freetype in order to make its installation
> and uninstallation just as simple as Shout. Plus, there have already been
> some changes to font rendering in the trunk that interact with Freetype's
> overrides in problematic ways and I really want to give this stuff even
> more of a make-over which would make the problem only worse.
>
> The current status is that outside of the FreeTypePlus core classes you
> need two additional extension methods,
> BitBlit(GrafPort)>>installFreeTypeFont:... and
> BitBlt>>copyBitsColor:alpha:gammaTable:ungammaTable:. I've left these with
> Freetype since they are "classic" extension methods (that is they add
> functionality that is required by Freetype but doesn't affect anything
> else).
>
> Other than that there are no further extensions or overrides of the core
> packages necessary. All of the core font stuff has been merged and the
> only other thing needed is to tell Squeak where to find the new fonts.
> I've cheated a little on that one by providing a hook that allows
> replacing the font chooser with one that knows how to deal with Freetype
> fonts, i.e., after installing Freetype you can simply execute
> "FontChooserTool default: FontChooser" and it will take the FontChooser
> from Freetype and  give you access to the Freetype fonts.
>
> Andy - I'm curious if you would consider moving these extensions and
> overrides out of the Freetype and into some FreetypePatches packages (just
> like you have with the PinesoftEnhancementsForFreetype). This would allow
> us to load a straight version of Freetype into trunk images without the
> fear of conflicts.