Faster display of text

[Laurent Szyster]

hi Salim,

i think the problem is with tkinter or in the library it uses
to display text on your platform. the reason is that often 
bi-directional fonts is an add-on to most computer platform.

here is a pointer about Python Internationalization

  http://www.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/loewis.html

about tkinter and arabic, here's what Google returns:

  http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1182/UIR010302regex/
  http://mini.net/tcl/699.html

hopes this can help.


Laurent

Salim Zayat wrote:
> 
> Hey there.  I am writing this tree-drawing application in tkinter which
> is meant to display arabic text.  The only problem is that it is
> extremely slow in printing all the arabic text to the Canvas widget which
> does all the displaying.  When I replace the arabic text with regular
> English strings, it works markedly faster.  Is this a problem with my
> encoding of it (currently \x escape encoded) or is it merely in Python's
> manner of displaying other languages?
> 
> For what it's worth, I am never sure in the program whether the text I am
> to display will be English or Arabic, so I just pass it straight through
> every time to the canvas:
> 
> canvas.create_text(xpos, ypos, text=whatever that chunk is).
> 
> Is this too inefficient?
> 
> Sorry about all the writing.  Thanks!
> 
> Salim