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Pango.GlyphItemIter

record (struct)

A PangoGlyphItemIter is an iterator over the clusters in a PangoGlyphItem.

The forward direction of the iterator is the logical direction of text. That is, with increasing start_index and start_char values. If glyph_item is right-to-left (that is, if glyph_item->item->analysis.level is odd), then start_glyph decreases as the iterator moves forward. Moreover, in right-to-left cases, start_glyph is greater than end_glyph.

An iterator should be initialized using either GlyphItemIter.init_start or GlyphItemIter.init_end, for forward and backward iteration respectively, and walked over using any desired mixture of GlyphItemIter.next_cluster and GlyphItemIter.prev_cluster.

A common idiom for doing a forward iteration over the clusters is:

PangoGlyphItemIter cluster_iter;
gboolean have_cluster;

for (have_cluster = pango_glyph_item_iter_init_start (&cluster_iter,
                                                      glyph_item, text);
     have_cluster;
     have_cluster = pango_glyph_item_iter_next_cluster (&cluster_iter))
{
  ...
}

Note that text is the start of the text for layout, which is then indexed by glyph_item->item->offset to get to the text of glyph_item. The start_index and end_index values can directly index into text. The start_glyph, end_glyph, start_char, and end_char values however are zero-based for the glyph_item. For each cluster, the item pointed at by the start variables is included in the cluster while the one pointed at by end variables is not.

None of the members of a PangoGlyphItemIter should be modified manually.

Methods

copy

def copy(self) -> GlyphItemIter | None

Make a shallow copy of an existing PangoGlyphItemIter structure.

free

def free(self) -> None

Frees a PangoGlyphItemIter.

init_end

def init_end(self, glyph_item: GlyphItem, text: str) -> bool

Initializes a PangoGlyphItemIter structure to point to the last cluster in a glyph item.

See PangoGlyphItemIter for details of cluster orders.

Parameters:

  • glyph_item — the glyph item to iterate over
  • text — text corresponding to the glyph item

init_start

def init_start(self, glyph_item: GlyphItem, text: str) -> bool

Initializes a PangoGlyphItemIter structure to point to the first cluster in a glyph item.

See PangoGlyphItemIter for details of cluster orders.

Parameters:

  • glyph_item — the glyph item to iterate over
  • text — text corresponding to the glyph item

next_cluster

def next_cluster(self) -> bool

Advances the iterator to the next cluster in the glyph item.

See PangoGlyphItemIter for details of cluster orders.

prev_cluster

def prev_cluster(self) -> bool

Moves the iterator to the preceding cluster in the glyph item. See PangoGlyphItemIter for details of cluster orders.

Properties

glyph_item

glyph_item: GlyphItem  # read/write

text

text: str  # read/write

start_glyph

start_glyph: int  # read/write

start_index

start_index: int  # read/write

start_char

start_char: int  # read/write

end_glyph

end_glyph: int  # read/write

end_index

end_index: int  # read/write

end_char

end_char: int  # read/write