Re: [ft] Small advance/spacing problem

[Mickey Gabel]

Daniel Wyatt wrote:
> I'm working on a small library called sfmlTTF which provides me with
> the features SFML's sf::String lacks.
> But I'm having a small problem.
> See this image:
> http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m300/silentdae/Test.jpg
>
> The cyan lines are the x advance.
> The bottom string was drawn with my code.
> The top string was drawn with someone else's code.
> Notice how they aren't aligned exactly the same.
> In particular, the advance of the 'i' looks like it's way off.
>
> Both strings were drawn with the same font and same size, neither using kerning.
> I have looked through the other person's code plenty but I can't spot
> any major differences.
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone could guess why this would happen.
> Here is the relevant portion of the code:
> http://pastebin.com/m50ab661

It's just a guess, but it looks as if the code doesn't take into account 
that glyphs can start on the left side of the pen. It doesn't take into 
account mFace->glyph->bitmap->left and mFace->glyph->bitmap->top.
However I'm no expert, so it might not be that :)