Use DirectWrite to render text in the status bar

[reupen]

#15

This makes the status bar use DirectWrite to render text rather than a mix of Uniscribe and GDI.

This brings improved text rendering, including sub-pixel positioning and improved handling of colour changes.

This includes colour font support on Windows 8.1 and newer.

[marc2k3]

A couple of observations:

1. you need a fallback for unsupported GDI fonts. If you select a raster font like Small Fonts, your logfont->dwrite font method will fail. I use Segoe UI so at least something is displayed even if it's not what the user requested.
2. you need to handle the font size being zero or prevent your font dialog allowing it. It will crash hard right now. 😬

[reupen]

Thanks @marc2k3 .

1. you need a fallback for unsupported GDI fonts. If you select a raster font like Small Fonts, your logfont->dwrite font method will fail. I use Segoe UI so at least something is displayed even if it's not what the user requested.

Thanks, I'll have a look at that.

2. you need to handle the font size being zero or prevent your font dialog allowing it. It will crash hard right now. 😬

Thanks, the exception is a small bug when the playlist lock section is shown though doing something more useful with a size of 0 will also need doing...

I probably need a better font picker really (since the current one doesn't really expose all the functionality available).

As an aside, I wouldn't be surprised if someone doesn't like the switch to DirectWrite but alas I don't really want two different ways of rendering text. I noticed it also doesn't seem to be affected by the system font smoothing or ClearType settings also so I may need to see what can be done about that...

[reupen]

Those two points are hopefully addressed now.

[marc2k3]

Setting the font size to zero is not quite right?? Standard DPI / win10 if it matters.

edit: the font fallback is fine

[reupen]

What does it look like in the release version? I tried to emulate the existing behaviour (and also, the status bar doesn't seem to scale with the font size at 100% DPI, but it does at other DPIs...)

[marc2k3]

Ah yes, should have tested release first. Oops...

This is a toggle between default 9pt and zero...

[reupen]

Interesting size 0 still looks bigger for you with DirectWrite (the difference is marginal for me at 100% DPI...)

Anyway, this'll do for now (they'll still be plenty of time for people to give feedback 😄)