[Bf-committers] Swiss Cheese Text Editor Refactor/Merge

[Lockal S]

Would it work with multicolumn characters which were recently added by
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=34373&group_id=9&atid=127?


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jason Wilkins <jason.a.wilkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> The drawing would be more efficient regardless of the underlying BLF
> rendering due to the batching.  The text editor changes aren't really
> dependent on the other changes.
>
> My problem is that the text editor (text_draw.c) is starting to diverge
> in inconvenient ways.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Mitchell Stokes <mogurijin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Would this also include the more efficient BLF rendering? I'm guessing
> the
> > text editor changes are dependent on that? I'd really love to see BLF
> > getting away from glBegin/glEnd.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Jason Wilkins <jason.a.wilkins at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > During the last GSoC I made some modifications to the text editor so
> that
> > > it would batch text before drawing it instead of drawing on character
> at
> > a
> > > time.  (Since I was removing immediate mode calls from swiss-cheese,
> > > sending one character at a time as WAY too much overhead.)
> > >
> > > The recent changes to the text editor have been a bit of a nightmare to
> > > merge.  The code is complicated and fragile (both mine and the
> original).
> > >
> > > I wanted to touch base and see if it would be OK to see about going
> ahead
> > > and integrating swiss-cheese's more efficient text rendering into
> trunk.
> > >  Perhaps I could also refactor some of the code to be a little bit more
> > > maintainable as well.
> > >
> > > The reason I'm asking is I'm not sure if somebody else might have plans
> > for
> > > this area, so I don't want to just continue as I am (merging complex
> > > changes) if it just going to be blown away.
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