Re: QT bug

["Youcef-Rabah Rahal" <yrrahal42 at hotmail dot com>]

Salam All,

I have an idea about the origin of this bug, it may be caused by AUTO 
direction in QPainter Object...
I mean in QT you can choose the text direction in QPainter Objects with 
QPainter::drawText(). There are 3 possibilities:
QPainter::AUTO
QPainter::RTL
QPainter::LTR

Check http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/qpainter.html#drawText and 
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/qpainter.html#TextDirection-enum

I presume that KDE programs use AUTO direction which is the default and thus 
when using arabic digits with arabic text the direction is supposed to be 
LTR !!! I think that the text direction should be also choosable by the 
user.

I even think that KDE programs use QWidget::drawText() which is simpler than 
QPainter.drawText() and it won't be then possible to change text direction 
unless a QPainter is used... Check 
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.1/qwidget.html#drawText . Trolltech's advice is 
to use QPainter to have more flexibility.

Well all this is only wild imaginings and I didn't look in the code and I 
don't know if I will have the time to.

I Maalam I plan to use RTL by default so now I'm not sad anymore ;) By the 
way, Maalam porting to QT seem to be easier than I thought ! I hope I will 
have something worth committing by next week or in 2 weeks maximum inch 
Allah !

Regards,

Youcef.


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