On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: > 2009/9/19 richardvo...@gmail.com <richardvo...@gmail.com>: >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> why does the menu system have a glyph drawing function? >>> >>> Is the one in font.c not suitable? >>> >>> Why are there two methods for returning text width and height, one in >>> gfx_region in pixels, the other in text_region in characters? Does >>> size in characters make any sense? There might be proportional fonts >>> or at least fonts of different size in the future. >> >> Pixels and proportional fonts are meaningless to a serial console. >> > So is element placement.
I know of multiple systems that support multiple columns, status bar, menu bar, popup dialogs, etc in text mode over a serial connection. If those things are considered out of scope for a bootloader, I'd tend to agree. But people seem to be defining rich interfaces for grub and to do so requires the ability to measure sizes in characters. > > Thanks > > Michal > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
