[cl-gd-announce] New release 0.5.3 (Was: Help with the multline text)

[Edi Weitz]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:20:52 -0400, "Andrei Stebakov" <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I call it (get-bounding-rect "Some #\Newline text" "arial" 50)
> I get an error:
>
> Type-error in KERNEL::OBJECT-NOT-TYPE-ERROR-HANDLER:

Ah, yes, there was a bug in there.  Thanks for the report.  The new
release should fix that.

> (defun get-bounding-rect (text font font-size)
>   (with-image* (0 0)
>     (let ((rect (draw-freetype-string 0 0 text
>               :do-not-draw t
>               :font-name font
>               :angle 0
>               :line-spacing 1.05d0
>               :color (find-color 0 0 255 :resolve t)
>               :point-size font-size)))
>       (values (- (aref rect 2) (aref rect 0)) (- (aref rect 3) (aref rect
> 5)) (aref rect 0) (aref rect 1) rect))))

Here's an easier version:

  (defun get-bounding-rect (text font font-size)
    (let ((rect (draw-freetype-string 0 0 text
                                      :do-not-draw t
                                      :font-name font
                                      :line-spacing 1.05d0
                                      :point-size font-size)))
      (values (- (aref rect 2) (aref rect 0))
              (- (aref rect 3) (aref rect 5))
              (aref rect 0)
              (aref rect 1)
              rect)))

> I think it doesn't like my :line-spacing 1.05d0 parameter.

That wasn't really the problem (but it showed the symptoms).

> Also I am not sure that I can provide a string with #Newline.

You can't do it the way you did.  There are basically two easy ways to
do it in portable Common Lisp.  Number one:

  (get-bounding-rect "Some
text" "arial" 50)

Number two:

  (get-bounding-rect #.(format nil "Some~%text") "arial" 50)

Or use CL-INTERPOL:

  (get-bounding-rect #?"Some\ntext" "arial" 50)

Cheers,
Edi.