Pango Reference Manual: Engines

Engines

Engines — Language-specific and rendering-system-specific processing

Functions

void	script_engine_list ()
void	script_engine_init ()
void	script_engine_exit ()
PangoEngine *	script_engine_create ()

Types and Values

struct	PangoEngineInfo
struct	PangoEngineScriptInfo
struct	PangoEngine
struct	PangoEngineClass
#define	PANGO_RENDER_TYPE_NONE

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── PangoEngine
        ├── PangoEngineLang
        ╰── PangoEngineShape

Description

Pango utilizes a module architecture in which the language-specific and render-system-specific components are provided by loadable modules. Each loadable module supplies one or more engines. Each engine has an associated engine type and render type. These two types are represented by strings.

Each dynamically-loaded module exports several functions which provide the public API. These functions are script_engine_list(), script_engine_init() and script_engine_exit, and script_engine_create(). The latter three functions are used when creating engines from the module at run time, while the first function is used when building a catalog of all available modules.

Functions

script_engine_list ()

void
script_engine_list (PangoEngineInfo **engines,
                    int *n_engines);

Function to be provided by a module to list the engines that the module supplies. The function stores a pointer to an array of PangoEngineInfo structures and the length of that array in the given location.

Note that script_engine_init() will not be called before this function.

Parameters

engines	location to store a pointer to an array of engines.
n_engines	location to store the number of elements in `engines` .

script_engine_init ()

void
script_engine_init (GTypeModule *module);

Function to be provided by a module to register any GObject types in the module.

Parameters

module

a GTypeModule structure used to associate any GObject types created in this module with the module.

script_engine_exit ()

void
script_engine_exit (void);

Function to be provided by the module that is called when the module is unloading. Frequently does nothing.

script_engine_create ()

PangoEngine *
script_engine_create (const char *id);

Function to be provided by the module to create an instance of one of the engines implemented by the module.

Parameters

the ID of an engine as reported by script_engine_list.

Returns

a newly created PangoEngine of the specified type, or NULL if an error occurred. (In normal operation, a module should not return NULL. A NULL return is only acceptable in the case where system misconfiguration or bugs in the driver routine are encountered.)

Types and Values

struct PangoEngineInfo

struct PangoEngineInfo {
  const gchar *id;
  const gchar *engine_type;
  const gchar *render_type;
  PangoEngineScriptInfo *scripts;
  gint n_scripts;
};

The PangoEngineInfo structure contains information about a particular engine. It contains the following fields:

Members

const gchar *`id`;	a unique string ID for the engine.
const gchar *`engine_type`;	a string identifying the engine type.
const gchar *`render_type`;	a string identifying the render type.
PangoEngineScriptInfo *`scripts`;	array of scripts this engine supports.
gint `n_scripts`;	number of items in `scripts` .

struct PangoEngineScriptInfo

struct PangoEngineScriptInfo {
  PangoScript script;
  const gchar *langs;
};

The PangoEngineScriptInfo structure contains information about how the shaper covers a particular script.

Members

PangoScript `script`;	a PangoScript. The value `PANGO_SCRIPT_COMMON` has the special meaning here of "all scripts"
const gchar *`langs`;	a semicolon separated list of languages that this engine handles for this script. This may be empty, in which case the engine is saying that it is a fallback choice for all languages for this range, but should not be used if another engine indicates that it is specific for the language for a given code point. An entry in this list of "*" indicates that this engine is specific to all languages for this range.

struct PangoEngine

struct PangoEngine;

PangoEngine is the base class for all types of language and script specific engines. It has no functionality by itself.

struct PangoEngineClass

struct PangoEngineClass {
};

Class structure for PangoEngine

PANGO_RENDER_TYPE_NONE

#define PANGO_RENDER_TYPE_NONE "PangoRenderNone"

A string constant defining the render type for engines that are not rendering-system specific.