RE: [ft-devel] Invalid Glyph Format

[Turner, David]

Hello Trevor,

> I have asked this before in a way, but...
> 
> Is there any specific information anyone could give me about 
> error code 0x12 
> (Invalid Glyph Format)
> 
On which function ?

> Anything specific would be very much appriciated. What might 
> cause this, 
> where it might be, what structs to look at...
> 
It's hard to tell. What were you trying to do.

> I am parting the headers, so although I think all of my types 
> sizes match, 
> there could be a lingering problem there...
> 
> Also I noticed
> 
> 
> struct FT_Bitmap_
> {
>       int rows;
>       int width;
>       int pitch;
>       ubyte* buffer;
>       short num_grays;
>       char pixel_mode;
>       char palette_mode;
>       void* palette;
> };
> 
> doesnt use the FT_Int and FT_Short, etc, types... Why is 
> this? When porting 
> to D where the int and short are different byte sizes, will 
> the cause the 
> problem? How large should these be?
> 

the struct don't use the FT_Int/FT_Short types because I
believe it is defined before them.

- FT_Int and FT_Short are just convenient typedefs
  for 'int' and 'short' anyway

- they're defined to be coherent with FT_UInt and
  FT_UShort, which are themselves equivalent to
  'unsigned int' and 'unsigned short', but *much*
  shorter to type.

- the D 'short' and 'int' types are always 16-bits and
  32-bits, respectively

- with C, the size of 'short' and 'int' depends on the
  platform. However, for most modern platforms, which
  means any one targetted by the D compiler, this means
  the same ones (i.e. 16 and 32 bits respectively)

- similarly, you can replace 'unsigned int' and
  'unsigned short' with their D equivalent: uint and ushort

- the signess of 'char' in C depends on the compiler,
  so you can use either the D 'byte' or 'ubyte' type
  instead. Given that all supported values for these
  fields are >= 0, 'ubyte' is preferred.

- do not use the D 'char' for C 'char'. That's because
  it's default initializer is 0xFF instead of 0, and this
  will cause all kinds of subtle problems when used
  naively in D code.


Hope this helps,

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


> Thanks,
> Trevor Parscal
> 
> 
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