Windows XP some issues - Githubissues

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

This project is great, I used it to develop some very cool apps. But it doesn't work very well on Windows XP. Here are some of my issues:

The window background color is set to a radial-gradient display is not normal, example:

html {
background: radial-gradient(50% 0%, 300vw 300vh, #1b2947 10%, #75517d 40%, #e96f92 65%, #f7f7b6);
}

Plaintext element does not display tab characters properly, example: samples/ideas/ide

Last issue, I can't register your forum, I use Tecent QQ-email, the website prompts that I can't send mail.

c-smile commented 5 years ago

Instead of using sciter.dll from /bin/32 folder try dll from /bin/skia32

/bin/32/sciter.dll uses GDI+ backend on XP and GDI+ is too old for anything useful. /bin/skia32/sciter.dll uses Skia for rendering on XP - it is way better.

"QQ-email" can really be used only inside China. Create account on gmail/hotmail/outlook if you want to talk with outside world.

Try this phrase: "Problems delivering mail to QQ" in your search engine and you will get an idea why.

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile Thank you very much, your reply is very useful. I believe now, the sciter is very mature, but sometimes I don’t know how to use it.

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile Hi Andrew, skia does not seem to support Chinese. The following is the test text:

中文文字测试，中文文字测试。

In addition, plaintext element does not support two commonly used symbols in Chinese, this issue exists in all versions, which are:

、。《》【】

c-smile commented 5 years ago

It does support it. You just need to list fonts that have these symbols.

html {
   font-family: Tahoma,  "Microsoft YaHei", "SimSun-ExtB", sans-serif; 
}

or something like that - whatever full fonts that Chinese Windows XP has. For font matching I am using Windows supplied services and they have some limitations on XP.

I can add better implementation (with the price of increasing engine size) but XP becomes less and less viable each day, its support does not bring any money to support the effort.

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile I follow your advice, but it seems to have no effect.

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile Sorry, I should apply it on plaintext, it is valid

c-smile commented 5 years ago

Tahoma,  "Microsoft YaHei", "SimSun-ExtB", sans-serif;

was just an example. You shall provide real font names found on XP.

Yet you should do that for plaintext element too. As it uses font-family:"courier new" by default and that font may not have all needed symbols.

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile Yes, I succeeded, it should be applied separately.

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile I have given up using the radial-gradient feature, and because skia doesn't support Chinese, I can only choose to continue using GDI+. Is there a way to make GDI+ support display tab characters?

c-smile commented 5 years ago

Could you make your mind?

Either you "succeeded" or "skia doesn't support Chinese". Whichever is true?

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile No, skia does not support Chinese. After I succeeded in modifying the font, the special symbol can be displayed, It is not skia.

c-smile commented 5 years ago

Please provide reproducible sample (HTML)

xiaoliang314 commented 5 years ago

@c-smile This is a Chinese sample that skia does not support, Save as utf-8 with bom.

<html>
  <head>
    <style>
    </style>
  </head>
<body>
  <p>这是中文！</p>
</body>
</html>

About tab character display issue: Please use Windows XP to open the spicer-sdk/samples/ideas/ide example. Pressing the tab in ide or loading a file with tabs will reproduce it.

c-smile commented 5 years ago

Here is what I see here (XP/SP3 English)