3_3 branch link problem with mingw

[Chris January]

> GetCharacterPlacement doesn't work for Unicode on Windows 9x, 
> so we need to implement it in order to support W9x, here are 
> some links from MSDN:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241020/EN-US/
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241358/EN-US/
> 
> Although we can the Microsoft layer for Unicode to support 
> Windows 9x, but i'm don't know if the MSLU support 
> GetGlypIndices or GetCharacterPlacementW, so someone else 
> needs to do a little research about that (Actually i'm very 
> busy, i can't promise to do it, but i'll try).  Use of MSLU 
> would be good because we can avoid use of QT_WA or things 
> like that, and use only xxxW functions.
> 
> What do you think???

I'd rather not use MSLU because not everyone has it installed and it adds an
unncessary dependancy. I'd be happy converting Unicode strings to the
current codepage and using GetCharacterPlacementA as a stop-gap measure and
then add an implementation along the lines of MSKB 241020 at a later stage.
I want to make some kind of release of 3.3.3 in the near future and the use
of GetGlyphIndices is a show-stopper since it prevents compatibility with
Win 9x. I'll see if I can load up a copy of Windows 95 on Virtual PC at
lunch and get Qt/Win32 working on there.

Chris

> 
> --- Chris January <chris at atomice.net> escribió: 
> > > > > Maybe we should load GetGlyphIndices
> > dynamically on
> > > startup to avoid
> > > > > this link errors? I'm doning this on some
> > other places too
> > > > > (QApp:transparency).
> > > > What alternative would we use for non-Win2k
> > systems?
> > > 
> > > Transparency simply won't work with win9x which is
> > the same
> > > like the original Qt from TT. But for
> > GetGlyphIndices there
> > > is no solution for win9x.
> > > Network support is for winsock 1.1 alltough
> > current
> > > initalisation requires
> > > 2.2 or above.
> > > I simply would say we don't support win9x for
> > now...
> > 
> > But Qt works on even Windows 95 so there must be some 
> alternative to 
> > GetGlyhIndices we could use. I don't mind if we depend on Winsock 2 
> > but it would be nice if we could get the font stuff to work 
> on Windows 
> > 9x as well.
> > A quick look through the Platform SDK shows up 
> GetCharacterPlacement 
> > as a possible alternative for GetGlyphIndices on these platforms.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
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