[PATCH 5/6] Ruler: change how the ruler text drawing works

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 12 March 2014 00:09, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com>
>
> A couple of problems with the ruler:
> - the rotated text doesn't look very well at all and
> interpolation doesn't help it much
> - measuring towards the right most part of the profile makes
> the text go out of the screen
>
> To solve these issues and attempt to improve the ruler
> this patch does the following:
> - place the text at the bottom of the lowest of the start
> and end points. this way the line will never intersect with
> the text
> - clamp the x position, so that the text doesn't ever leave
> the screen horizontally
> - place a white background behind the text so that it
> will cover text and graphics under the ruler item
> (TODO: place the ruler on top of everything else)
>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
> ---
> more or less a proposal.
>
> the patch also adds a newline at the bottom of ruleritem.h,
> so that this isn't a separate whitespace patch.

possible fix for #456, given there is no text rotation...

lubomir
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