Re: [ft-devel] [GSoC'19] ftinspect questions

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Alexei A Podtelezhnikov, PhD

The demo programs also test different ways to use FreeType: FT_Load_Glyph / FT_Render_Glyph versus FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap or FT_Outline_Render. It is good to be diverse while testing and it might be quit natural to have separate tabs:

A tab with a glyph list in native or encoded (unicode, etc) order (ftview)

A tab with text string layout (ftstring)

A tab with huge magnification (ftgrid)

The radio buttons does the same thing. Adding tabs is more of a design change. Opening tab would perform the same functionality as the radio buttons do. Although having tabs in place of radio button is fine too. 

Tabs can better hide some options: kerning is only relevant to text layout, so is text justification or waterfall.