ScriptShapeOpenType (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

This function breaks a Unicode string into individually shapeable items and provides an array of feature tags for each shapeable item for OpenType processing.

Syntax

HRESULT ScriptShapeOpenType(
  HDC hdc, 
  SCRIPT_CACHE* psc, 
  SCRIPT_ANALYSIS* psa,
  OPENTYPE_TAG tagScript,
  OPENTYPE_TAG tagLangSys,
  int* rcRangeChars,
  TEXTRANGE_PROPERTIES** rpRangeProperties,
  int cRanges,
  const WCHAR* pwcChars, 
  int cChars, 
  int cMaxGlyphs, 
  WORD* pwLogClust,
  SCRIPT_CHARPROP* pCharProps, 
  WORD* pwOutGlyphs, 
  SCRIPT_GLYPHPROP* pOutGlyphProps,
  int* pcGlyphs 
);

Parameters

  • hdc
    [in] Optional. Handle to the device context
  • psc
    [in/out] Pointer to a SCRIPT_CACHE structure identifying the script cache.

  • psa
    [in] Pointer to a SCRIPT_ANALYSIS structure obtained from a previous call to ScriptItemizeOpenType. The structure identifies the shaping engine, so that glyphs can be formed correctly.

    Alternatively, an application can supply a null pointer for this parameter to receive unfiltered results.

  • tagScript
    [in] An OPENTYPE_TAG defining the OpenType script tag for the writing system.
  • tagLangSys
    [in] An OPENTYPE_TAG containing the OpenType language tag for the writing system.
  • rcRangeChars
    [in] Array of characters in each range. The number of array elements is indicated by cRanges. The values of the elements of this array add up to the value of cChars.
  • rpRangeProperties
    [in] Array of TEXTRANGE_PROPERTIES structures, each representing one OpenType feature range. The number of structures is indicated by the cRanges parameter. For more information on rpRangeProperties, see the Remarks section.
  • cRanges
    [in] The number of OpenType feature ranges.
  • pwcChars
    [in] Pointer to an array of Unicode characters containing the run.
  • cChars
    [in] Number of characters in the Unicode run.
  • cMaxGlyphs
    [in] Maximum number of glyphs to generate.
  • pwLogClust
    [out] Pointer to a buffer in which this function retrieves an array of logical-cluster information. Each array element corresponds to a character in the array of Unicode characters. The value of each element is the offset from the first glyph in the run to the first glyph in the cluster containing the corresponding character. Note that when the fRTL member of the SCRIPT_ANALYSIS structure is TRUE, the elements decrease as the array is read.
  • pCharProps
    [out] Pointer to a buffer in which this function retrieves an array of character-property values, of the length indicated by cChars.
  • pwOutGlyphs
    [out] Pointer to a buffer in which this function retrieves an array of glyphs.
  • pOutGlyphProps
    [out] Pointer to a buffer in which this function retrieves an array of attributes for each of the retrieved glyphs. The length of the values equals the value of pcGlyphs. Since one glyph property is indicated per glyph, the value of this parameter indicates the number of elements specified by cMaxGlyphs.
  • pcGlyphs
    [out] Pointer to the location in which this function retrieves the number of glyphs indicated in pwOutGlyphs.

Return Values

If the function is successful, it returns 0. If it does not succeed, it returns a nonzero HRESULT value. In all error cases, the content of all output-array values is undefined. The application can test the return value with the SUCCEEDED and FAILED macros.

Error values include the following:

Error

Description

E_OUTOFMEMORY

The output buffer length indicated by cMaxGlyphs is insufficient.

USP_E_SCRIPT_NOT_IN_FONT

The font corresponding to the device context does not support the required script. The application should choose another font, using either ScriptGetCMap or another method to select the font.

E_PENDING

The script cache specified by the psc parameter does not contain enough information to shape the string, and the device context has been passed as null so that the function is unable to complete the shaping process. The application should set up a correct device context for the run and call this function again with the appropriate context value in hdc and with all other parameters the same.

Remarks

ScriptShapeOpenType is preferred over the older ScriptShape function. Some advantages of ScriptShapeOpenType include the following:

  • Parameters directly correspond to OpenType tags in font layout tables.
  • Parameters define features applied to each character.
  • Input is divided into runs. Each run has OpenType properties and consists of a single call to ScriptShapeOpenType.

If this function returns E_OUTOFMEMORY, the application might call ScriptShapeOpenType repeatedly, with successively larger output buffers, until a large-enough buffer is provided. The number of glyphs generated by a code point varies according to the script and the font. For a simple script, a Unicode code point might generate a single glyph. However, a complex script font might construct characters from components, and thus generate several times as many glyphs as characters. Also, there are special cases, such as invalid character representations, in which extra glyphs are added to represent the invalid sequence. Therefore, a reasonable guess for the size of the buffer indicated by pwOutGlyphs is 1.5 times the length of the character buffer, plus an additional 16 glyphs for rare cases, for example, invalid sequence representation.

This function can set the fNoGlyphIndex member of the SCRIPT_ANALYSIS structure if the font or operating system cannot support glyph indexes.

The application can call ScriptShapeOpenType to determine if a font supports the characters in a given string. If the function returns S_OK, the application should check the output for missing glyphs. If fLogicalOrder is set to TRUE in the SCRIPT_ANALYSIS structure, the function always generates glyphs in the same order as the original Unicode characters. If fLogicalOrder is set to FALSE, the function generates right-to-left items in reverse order so that ScriptTextOut does not have to reverse them before calling ExtTextOut.

If the eScript member of SCRIPT_ANALYSIS is set to SCRIPT_UNDEFINED, shaping is disabled. In this case, ScriptShapeOpenType displays the glyph that is in the font cmap table. If no glyph is in the table, the function indicates that glyphs are missing.

ScriptShapeOpenType sequences clusters uniformly within the run, and sequences glyphs uniformly within a cluster. It uses the value of the fRTL member of SCRIPT_ANALYSIS, from ScriptItemizeOpenType, to identify if sequencing is left-to-right or right-to-left.

The rpRangeProperties Parameter

The TEXTRANGE_PROPERTIES structure points to an array of OPENTYPE_FEATURE_RECORD structures. This array is used as follows:

  • Each element of the array indicated for rpRangeProperties describes a range.
  • Spans of text sharing particular properties tend to "nest" and nested spans can share OPENTYPE_FEATURE_RECORD information. For example, in the illustration below:
    • The rows of numbers at the top represent ranges, items, and runs, respectively.
    • Each span labeled here with a letter represents a single OpenType feature. The features that fall into each range are stored in the OPENTYPE_FEATURE_RECORD array of that range.
    • For each range, the array of OPENTYPE_FEATURE_RECORD structures corresponds to the letters for the spans that contain that range.
    • Range 2 is indirectly associated with the OPENTYPE_FEATURE_RECORD structures for spans A, B, and C. Range 4 is associated only with the structures for spans A and D.

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Note

The illustration makes use of many calls to ScriptShapeOpenType, each representing one run.

The pwLogClust Parameter

The following example shows how ScriptShapeOpenType generates a logical cluster array (pwLogClust) from a character array (pwcChars) and a glyph array (pwOutGlyphs). The run has the following four clusters:

  • First cluster: one character represented by one glyph
  • Second cluster: one character represented by three glyphs
  • Third cluster: three characters represented by one glyph
  • Fourth cluster: two characters represented by three glyphs

The run is described as follows in the character and glyph arrays.

Character array

| c1u1 | c2u1 | c3u1 c3u2 c3u3 | c4u1 c4u2 |

Glyph array

| c1g1 | c2g1 c2g2 c2g3 | c3g1 | c4g1 c4g2 c4g3 |

Notation for the array elements consists of the following three items:

  • c<n> means cluster n.
  • g<m> means glyph m.
  • u<p> means Unicode code point p.

The generated cluster array stores offsets to the cluster containing the character. Units are expressed in glyphs as follows:

| 0 | 1 | 4 4 4 | 5 5 |

Requirements

Header

usp10.h

Library

Uspce.lib

See Also

Reference

Uniscribe Functions
SCRIPT_CACHE
SCRIPT_ANALYSIS
OPENTYPE_TAG
TEXTRANGE_PROPERTIES
ScriptGetCMap
ScriptShape
ScriptTextOut
OPENTYPE_FEATURE_RECORD

Other Resources

ExtTextOut

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