[ft] In freetype how can one set font size in pt, but keep resolution independent?

[Andrew John Clayphan]

Hi,

Got a question regarding how does one set font in pt's in freetype, but keep 
resolution independent.

I'm trying to set a fontsize (that is a long) which is to represent the size in 
points (pt).

What i am trying to do is set the fontsize in the new face that I have created, 
however I want to use UNSCALED everywhere.

Up until now, i haven't actually set the size of the font, i've been using 
whatever default freetype gives me (which I think uses 10pt by default). Now 
when I come to finalising a piece of code, I can't find a suitable operation 
that can set a font size in points for me. Everything I find either asks for 
integers or will turn on devide dependent resolution attributes.

So, I looked at the following functions;
FT_Set_Char_Size,  // but it seems to do nothing for me
FT_Set_Pixel_Size, // but that only accepts integers, and my fontsize variable 
is a long

I read through a bunch of the freetype API documentation, the tutorials, the 
glyph conventions, but still am unsure how to set a fontsize (that is a long) 
and make the output still be using UNSCALED everywhere (that is, I don't want 
anything dependent on resolution, since im not actually doing any rendering 
just grabbing the horiAdvance metric and kerning data)

This is my sandbox testing code so far, can anyone see what I might be missing?

  /* **** START SNIP **** */

  FT_Library   library; /* handle to library     */
  FT_Face      face;    /* handle to face object */
  FT_GlyphSlot slot;
  FT_Error     error;

  error = FT_Init_FreeType( &library );
  if ( error ) { cout << "Died on freetype initialisation" << endl; exit(1); }

  error = FT_New_Face(library,"/usr/share/fonts/dejavu-fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf", 
0, &face);
  if (error) { cout << "Died when loading the font" << endl; exit(1); }

  // Thought this function would do it for me, however seems to do nothing for 
me
  // Since when i changed the numbers my debug was still the same
  error = FT_Set_Char_Size(face,  // handle to face object
                           22*64, // char_width in 1/64th of points
                           22*64, // char_height in 1/64th of points
                           0,     // horizontal device resolution
                           0 );   // vertical device resolution
  if (error) { cout << "Died on set char size function" << endl; exit(1); }

  FT_UInt glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index(face, 'a'); // Testing the letter a

  cout << "glyph index = " << glyph_index << endl;

  // Have to keep on NO_SCALE else resolution will affect the metrics
  error = FT_Load_Glyph(face, glyph_index, FT_LOAD_NO_SCALE);
  if (error) { cout << "died on load glyph" << endl; exit(1); }

  error = FT_Render_Glyph(face->glyph,            // glyph slot
                          FT_RENDER_MODE_NORMAL); // render mode
  if (error) { cout << "died on render of glyph" << endl; exit(1); }

  // Debug printout                    (slot)
  cout << "horizontal advance is" << face->glyph->metrics.horiAdvance << endl;

  /* **** END SNIP **** */

Any replies to my query would be very appreciated.

Cheers,
Andrew