Re: Where to get 'PangoContext*' from?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 01/20/2010 04:29 AM, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to use pango_itemize in a command-line utility to split an
> unicode string into parts of same script. I don't need any other pango
> functionality (in this utility, of course ;-).

Use PangoScriptIter then.  Itemization does a lot more than what you need.


> Now, pango_itemize() wants PangoContext* as it's first parameter,
> but if I create it using pango_context_new() it complains:

Did you read the docs for pango_context_new()?  That points you to
pango_font_map_create_context().

behdad


> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (process:14724): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
> 
> (process:14724): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> 
> (process:14724): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
> 
> (process:14724): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_itemize: assertion `context != NULL' failed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> If I would use pango_font_map_create_context() as suggested in the doc's
> where do I get PangoFontMap* from?
> (And I don't undestand anyway, frankly, why would one need 
> PangoFontMap just for itemizing a string?)
> 
> Thank You!
> Petr
>