Re: [Devel] FT_Trace facility on Win95/98 platform

[David Turner]

address@hidden wrote:
> The FT_Trace facility is not working on Win95/98, cause the "set"
> command (for setting environment variables) does not allow "="-chars,
> i.e.
>
>    set FT2_DEBUG="any=2 pfr=4"
>
> is a syntax error.
>
> Changing a couple of "=" chars to ":" in ft_debug_init and using
>
>    set FT2_DEBUG="any:2 pfr:4"
>
> solves the problem. Since FT_Trace() is imho not documented anyway,
> I´d prefer ":" over "=" in FT2, so anyone can use FT_Trace on Win32-
> platforms "out of the box". For backward-compatibility, of course, it´s
> also possible to allow ":" in addition to "=".
>
> Eike.

Hello Eike,

  Since the FT2_DEBUG environment variable facility was only introduced
  recently, changing the separator from '=' to ':' doesn't cause
  backwards compatibility problems (and it's only a developer's thing
  anyway :-)

  I've changed its behaviour. As you also noticed already, I have put
  a new documentation file in "docs/DEBUG.TXT" that documents how to
  use the various debugging facilities (logging, memory debugging,
  assertions) within the font engine..

  And the reason why I didn't announce it is that I prefer coding to
  writing email when my time is short ;-)

Thanks,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)