Vertical font problem

[Shachar Shemesh]

paolo inzaghi wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm porting a Windows application to Wine and I found 2 problems.
> For simplicity I wrote a simple Window application (attached to the 
> mail) that use two TextOut to write the strings "Horizontal" and 
> "Vertical".
> The text is written horizontally and vertically, setting the 
> lfEscapement field of the LOGFONT structure respectively to 0 and 900.
> The application, compiled with MSVC 7.0, works fine in Windows, but it 
> has two problems when it is executed inside with wine-20040408 
> environment.
>
> First problem:
> after the application starts, the two strings are not shown.
> To see the strings in Linux, I force the sending of a WM_PAINT message 
> when the user right click the mouse.
> By the way, if you minimize and then restore the application, the 
> strings disappear.
>
> Second problem:
> even when shown, the vertical text is not correctly shown. A large 
> amount of space is left between the string characters.
> Note that the problem arise every time you set the lfEscapement to 
> something different from 0.
> If I use 3600 to show the "Horizontal" string, it also is badly shown 
> (in theory 3600 should be equivalent to 0).
>
> Please, could you help me ?
>
> Regards
> Paolo
>
Can you send the project with the zip file? I don't feel like running 
precompiled binaries in this day and age.

          Shachar

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