fUnderlinePosition, fUnderlineThickness missing in CanvasKit

[Micha]

Hi all,

in Skia, SkFontMetrics provides underline information:

    SkScalar fUnderlineThickness; //!< underline thickness
    SkScalar fUnderlinePosition;  //!< distance from baseline to top of stroke, typically positive

We use these two scalars to draw underlined text (simply draw a line according to these two scalars) with Skia.
Since our drawing API is cross-platform and becomes implemented by Skia as well as by CanvasKit, we need to draw underlined text using CanvasKit, too. However, CanvasKit does not provide this information:

export interface FontMetrics {

    ascent: number;     // suggested space above the baseline. < 0

    descent: number;    // suggested space below the baseline. > 0

    leading: number;    // suggested spacing between descent of previous line and ascent of next line.

    bounds?: Rect;      // smallest rect containing all glyphs (relative to 0,0)

}

Could FontMetrics interface be extended to provide these two metrics? Is there a workaround to approximate them from font size, ascent and descent?

Thank you for any answer.
Michael

[bungeman]

https://skia-review.googlesource.com/c/skia/+/1183776

[Micha]

Thank you a lot,

that was very fast. I guess this fix will be available in the next official CanvasKit npm release?

Then we'll upgrade and use the new metrics provided.

Michael.

[William Candillon]

I would also +1 a new CanvasKit release if possible. The new immutable Path API while available in CanvasKit, hasn't been published yet.

Kind regards,

William

[bungeman]

CanvasKit version 0.41.0 has been published.