Include load_glyphs
of full text string prior to character-processing loop in _update_text
#85
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This change improves performance when font glyphs have not been loaded. See issue: #84
On a brief test of plotting the following line of text with Helvetica-Bold-16.bdf, the time to create the label reduced from 9.0 seconds to 0.5625 seconds:
There was no significant difference in processing time when glyphs had already been loaded.
Note: This update will also help with bitmap_label.py