pango/org.gtkkn.bindings.pango/Direction

Direction

PangoDirection represents a direction in the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.

Not every value in this enumeration makes sense for every usage of PangoDirection; for example, the return value of func@unichar_direction and func@find_base_dir cannot be PANGO_DIRECTION_WEAK_LTR or PANGO_DIRECTION_WEAK_RTL, since every character is either neutral or has a strong direction; on the other hand PANGO_DIRECTION_NEUTRAL doesn't make sense to pass to func@itemize_with_base_dir.

The PANGO_DIRECTION_TTB_LTR, PANGO_DIRECTION_TTB_RTL values come from an earlier interpretation of this enumeration as the writing direction of a block of text and are no longer used. See PangoGravity for how vertical text is handled in Pango.

If you are interested in text direction, you should really use fribidi directly. PangoDirection is only retained because it is used in some public apis.

Entries

LTR

A strong left-to-right direction

RTL

A strong right-to-left direction

TTB_LTR

Deprecated value; treated the same as PANGO_DIRECTION_RTL.

TTB_RTL

Deprecated value; treated the same as PANGO_DIRECTION_LTR

WEAK_LTR

A weak left-to-right direction

WEAK_RTL

A weak right-to-left direction

NEUTRAL

No direction specified

Types

Companion

object Companion

Properties

name

val name: String

nativeValue

val nativeValue: <Error class: unknown class>

ordinal

val ordinal: Int

Functions

valueOf

fun valueOf(value: String): Direction

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

values

fun values(): Array<Direction>

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they're declared.