[Pnet-developers] Changes to Xsharp's font system

[Rhys Weatherley]

Hi all,

I've made a lot of changes to Xsharp's font rendering system in CVS during the 
last few days.  The aim was to improve measuring and drawing performance by 
using XFontStruct's rather than XFontSet's where practical (e.g. for Latin1 
locales).  It will also be a lot easier to plug in alternate font rendering 
systems in the future.

For those of you who have had font performance issues in the past, could you 
please re-test and let me know whether this helps or not.  I don't see the 
same performance problems locally, so it is difficult for me to determine if 
my fixes are helping or not.

There is still a lot more that can be done in both Xsharp and System.Drawing. 
Neil and I aren't finished optimizing yet, but it is coming along nicely.

A clean rebuild of pnet and pnetlib will be needed to get the changes.  i.e. 
"make distclean; ./auto_gen.sh; ./configure; make".

Cheers,

Rhys.