Expose "kerning" property for fonts

For text where the content is known, it can be handy to be able
to disable the kerning feature in OpenType to improve performance.

[ChangeLog][Qt Quick][Text] Added "kerning" property to the font
type to support disabling kerning on text.

Task-number: QTBUG-56728
Change-Id: I2e447587a066a7e12c5d38967e0845eaad021014
Reviewed-by: Simon Hausmann <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp b/src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp
index 1d2f3de1df..6df23cdff5 100644
--- a/src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp
+++ b/src/quick/util/qquickglobal.cpp
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ public:
         QV4::ScopedValue vweight(scope, obj->get((s = v4->newString(QStringLiteral("weight")))));
         QV4::ScopedValue vwspac(scope, obj->get((s = v4->newString(QStringLiteral("wordSpacing")))));
         QV4::ScopedValue vhint(scope, obj->get((s = v4->newString(QStringLiteral("hintingPreference")))));
+        QV4::ScopedValue vkerning(scope, obj->get((s = v4->newString(QStringLiteral("kerning")))));
 
         // pull out the values, set ok to true if at least one valid field is given.
         if (vbold->isBoolean()) {
@@ -356,6 +357,10 @@ public:
             retn.setHintingPreference(static_cast<QFont::HintingPreference>(vhint->integerValue()));
             if (ok) *ok = true;
         }
+        if (vkerning->isBoolean()) {
+            retn.setKerning(vkerning->booleanValue());
+            if (ok) *ok = true;
+        }
 
         return retn;
     }