Added some comments

This commit is contained in:
troy%netscape.com 1998-08-29 03:26:33 +00:00
parent a832ecd31c
commit 2882214b81

View File

@ -33,56 +33,99 @@ class nsIDeviceContext;
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
// Native font handle
/**
* A native font handle
*/
typedef void* nsFontHandle;
// FontMetrics interface
/**
* Font metrics interface
*/
class nsIFontMetrics : public nsISupports
{
//what about encoding, where do we put that? MMP
// XXX what about encoding, where do we put that? MMP
public:
//initializer
/**
* Initialize the font metrics. Call this after creating the font metrics.
* Font metrics you get from the font cache do NOT need to be initialized
*
* @see nsIFontCache#GetMetricsFor()
*/
NS_IMETHOD Init(const nsFont& aFont, nsIDeviceContext *aContext) = 0;
//get the width of an 8 bit char
/**
* Returns the width (in app units) of an 8-bit character
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidth(char aC, nscoord &aWidth) = 0;
//get the width of a unicode char
/**
* Returns the width (in app units) of a unicode character
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidth(PRUnichar aC, nscoord &aWidth) = 0;
//get the width of an nsString
/**
* Returns the width (in app units) of an nsString
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidth(const nsString& aString, nscoord &aWidth) = 0;
//get the width of 8 bit character string
/**
* Returns the width (in app units) of an 8-bit character string
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidth(const char *aString, nscoord &aWidth) = 0;
//get the width of a Unicode character string
/**
* Returns the width (in app units) of a Unicode character string
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidth(const PRUnichar *aString, PRUint32 aLength, nscoord &aWidth) = 0;
/**
* Returns the width (in app units) of an 8-bit character
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidth(nsIDeviceContext *aContext, const nsString& aString, nscoord &aWidth) = 0;
//get the height as this font
/**
* Returns the height (in app units) of the font. This is ascent plus descent
* plus any internal leading
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetHeight(nscoord &aHeight) = 0;
//get height - (ascent + descent)
/**
* Returns the amount of internal leading (in app units) for the font. This
* is computed as the "height - (ascent + descent)"
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetLeading(nscoord &aLeading) = 0;
//get the maximum character ascent
/**
* Returns, in app units, the maximum distance characters in this font extend
* above the base line.
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetMaxAscent(nscoord &aAscent) = 0;
//get the maximum character descent
/**
* Returns, in app units, the maximum distance characters in this font extend
* below the base line.
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetMaxDescent(nscoord &aDescent) = 0;
//get the maximum character advance for the font
/**
* Returns, in app units, the maximum character advance for the font
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetMaxAdvance(nscoord &aAdvance) = 0;
//get the widths of the first 256 characters of the font
/**
* Get the widths (in app units) of the first 256 characters of the font
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetWidths(const nscoord *&aWidths) = 0;
//get the font associated width these metrics
/**
* Returns the font associated with these metrics
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetFont(const nsFont *&aFont) = 0;
/**
* Returns the font handle associated with these metrics
*/
NS_IMETHOD GetFontHandle(nsFontHandle &aHandle) = 0;
};