[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Thoughts about font implementation

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

Minimal changes are always good idea.
However, we usually do not add new methods unless we actually use them.
Not sure what's the best approach in this case.

-igor

Roman Kennke wrote:
>> Am i understanding this correctly and this adds new TrueType constructor 
>> that is not used in the OpenJDK itself?
>>     
>
> For now, yes. (I'm using this in my own FontManager implementation in
> the JamaicaVM, to load fonts from ROM instead of files. But this
> requires the FontManager refactoring in Caciocavallo too...) I will most
> likely add more alternative code paths on top of it later (for example,
> for Font.createFont(InputStream) to not create a temporary file, or
> generally for creating fonts using mmapped files instead of RAF,
> possibly activated by a system property or so). I was thinking that it
> would be easier to review if I send a minimal patch for the start.
>
> /Roman
>
>   
>> -igor
>>
>> Roman Kennke wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> What do you think about this patch (see webrev link below)? Can we get
>>> this into jdk7? It is very useful for me and I wouldn't like to maintain
>>> it myself...
>>>
>>> Cheers, Roman
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> http://kennke.org/~roman/truetypefrombuffer/webrev/
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>