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

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> IMHO, `FT_Get_Char_Index' is sufficient.  For displaying single
>> characters in `ftinspect' (or a bunch of them once in a separate
>> window for ftview-like stuff) you don't need a cache for speeding
>> up things.
>
> Let me know if I'm wrong but isn't it looks up the glyph index
> corresponding to the given char code in the char map but we are
> supposed to print all glyphs instead of getting a glyph index
> corresponding to a particular char code.  Also, for getting the char
> code we would need glyph index.  This function is perfect for
> rendering text string since we can look up for a particular
> character's glyph index but not sure how it would be used for
> getting all glyphs.

You were talking about caching the cmap stuff, right?  Cmaps always
map character codes to glyph indices.  Am I missing something?


    Werner