Re: GNUstep app fails on Ubuntu 16 - found workaround

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 2020-05-09 08:11:36 +0000 Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:

> Thank you Andreas for pinning this down. Sadly your solution cannot be used 
> directly. That way all text views or text cell would result in a height of 
> zero. The returned size here has to include at least the height of a new 
> line. This gets handled in the class GSLayoutManager (around line 2600) by 
> adding the extra used rectangle to the returned rectangle.
> 
> If you still got time to look further it would help to know, how big the 
> extra_used_rect is in your case and where these values come from. Maybe we 
> fail to initialise the value correctly? That value should get set by the 
> class GSHorizontalTypesetter (line 555). If the wrong value comes from there 
> then the current font is to blame. Could you please inspect that?

I remember this, I have a déjà-vu here! Don't remember the App, but chasing 
down exactly this issue, I remember that it should be at least "one line" 
height and that there were issue.

Riccardo