Re: [Freetype] Re: help modifying freetype demo.

[David Turner]

George H wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to modify the ftview freetype demo, to work with an 
> off-screen Mesa context I am using.
>
> It's my understanding the the MIGS portion of the demo is setup to only 
> display grayscale characters.  I am having trouble understanding how I 
> could add support for rendering characters in a variety of colors.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Also, if any one is aware of 
> other C interfaces to freetype I would love to see them.

Actually, the small graphics library was recently updated to support
rendering into RGB pixmaps (as well as gray 8-bit ones). You should
take a look at the new version of "grwin32.c" and more especially
"grx11.c" (the latter contains routines to perform blitting/conversion
from rgb to various popular pixel modes, in case you'd need to duplicate
this functionality).

So I suppose you'll only need to write your own "graphics driver" and
add it to the "graph" directory.

Hope this helps,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)