Yes Im using the PD extended. Its a shame that this is changed. Sure
there will be others with similar questions.
Be happy to load an external version. Is there a compiled version for
OSX somewhere accessible? Had a look on the site and there are no
links anywhere...
Thanks for the feedback.
Best, T.
On 19 Apr 2007, at 15:33, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
timon wrote:
Hi, I posted a question last week on why [textextruded] wasnt
working. I got the answer, GEM must be compiled with FTGL. So why was it changed in the first place? It seemed to be
running fine (or sort of) and now it aint working at all. And sadly I dont
know how to compile GEM with FTGL.please note that [textextruded] was only introduced into Gem
because of FTGL (the old fontrendering library used was GLTT which had no such thing as extruded text).so the answer is: in order to have [textextruded] working, you must compile Gem with FTGL; there have never been another way to get
extruded text.The versions I have been using has all that working. And from what
your saying, this version was compiled with FTGL.: GEM: ver: 0.90 GEM: compiled: Mar 8 2006correct
This one is not: GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia GEM: ver: 0.91-cvs GEM: compiled: Apr 14 2007
So what your saying is that the current version of GEM is not
compiled with FTGL. I guess what Im trying to get an answer to is why the
currentcorrect
version of GEM is not compiled with FTGL? Are there any plans for
doing that (very impatient I know)?well of course; Gem's font support is designed to be compiled with
FTGL on all platforms (btw, this was another bonus of using FTGL as it runs on linux, os-x and w32)i don't know why your version of Gem is not compiled with FTGL, but i doubt that i compiled it (so i am not to blame).
if it is the version taken from pd-extended, than there is a reason
for not having FTGL (well, even if it is not from pd-extended, i guess
there is a reason for being compiled without FTGL; but in pd-extended i
happen to know about it): compiling Gem with FTGL requires FTGL to be available on the compiling machine. this is simply not the case on the pd-extended OS-X build-machine, because there are no FTGL-packages available from fink. while the (deprecated) GemLibs do have a version of FTGL checked
in, no automated build-system is provided for it. so FTGL gets not compiled on the build-system, which means that it is not available for Gem.there are several things you can do about this:
- build Gem by hand (it is not that hard to do; you can find
step-by-step instructions how i did it in the gem-dev archives)
- try to get FTGL in GemLibs to be automatically build on the
buil-machine and make Gem use it
- try to get FTGL into fink
Whats the reason for this grand change? Any future benefits?
Will it support a full UTF-8 character map?like chris has said, there has not been a grand change regarding
fonts for years. and yes, the text-objects in current CVS support full Unicode
(well not full: only the first 65000 or so) characters.With regards to full character set... I did some tests a while back,
a "while back" is probably out of date. i have (hopefully) fixed this within the last 2 weeks. i have only tested it on linux, so i would be glad for w32 and os-x
reports.mfasdr IOhannes