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On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:43 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 16:56 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
 Is there any need to run UI stuff during build? IOW, can't we simply globally 
force using headless for everything during build?

Unix has the env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=svp which would force headless mode.
Though I don't think macosx or windows honors that, hence the --headless

        Right.

I'm not sure why e.g. the fairly simple hwpfilter test, or any of them
really, would end up triggering anything UI-related. I guess there might
be some painful-to-fix assumption somewhere that tries to create a
dialog or render some text into a drawable and want to query the
desktop-settings for the default fontoptions on the system or some such
which cascades out of control.

        So - unfortunately on Windows & Mac we initialize VCL for those tests
which I imagine creates an invisible window (for it's event loop) and
other more or less evil & non-desired stuff.

        Having said that, it normally doesn't popup dialogs and shouldn't
interfere with the UI - what are you seeing ?

        The main reason (IIRC) is that the font logic is not available outside
of the unix / freetype world and that is needed for the headless /
generic code, and until we either split out the font handling to be
better abstracted, or ship freetype cross-platform we'll have to do this
way I IIRC.

        Work appreciated to improve the vcl/generic split etc. :-)

        HTH,

                Michael.

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