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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 03 Apr 2002 15:19:39 +0000 |
parents | c9baf4b00820 |
children | 01b93e5e53a7 |
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--- a/src/term.c Wed Apr 03 14:47:16 2002 +0000 +++ b/src/term.c Wed Apr 03 15:19:39 2002 +0000 @@ -1637,11 +1637,23 @@ } -/* Produce glyphs for the display element described by IT. The - function fills output fields of IT with pixel information like the - pixel width and height of a character, and maybe produces glyphs at +/* Produce glyphs for the display element described by IT. *IT + specifies what we want to produce a glyph for (character, image, ...), + and where in the glyph matrix we currently are (glyph row and hpos). + produce_glyphs fills in output fields of *IT with information such as the + pixel width and height of a character, and maybe output actual glyphs at the same time if IT->glyph_row is non-null. See the explanation of - struct display_iterator in dispextern.h for an overview. */ + struct display_iterator in dispextern.h for an overview. + + produce_glyphs also stores the result of glyph width, ascent + etc. computations in *IT. + + IT->glyph_row may be null, in which case produce_glyphs does not + actually fill in the glyphs. This is used in the move_* functions + in xdisp.c for text width and height computations. + + Callers usually don't call produce_glyphs directly; + instead they use the macro PRODUCE_GLYPHS. */ void produce_glyphs (it)