Should ATS APIs used for Font.creatFont() be dropped ?

[Phil Race]

On 10/8/11 8:43 AM, neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> This sounds a great idea (go for simplification!)
>
> I would personally avoid to keep the code commented out though, I find 
> this always very confusing, what about just deleting it and adding the 
> rationale in the bug entry?

Well .. the ATS code may be instructive and depending on how we merge this
OS X port into mainline it may be absent from the mercurial history 
unless textually
present. If the ATS API goes way [I think I read it was deprecated], its 
largely moot except
to the extent that it should be a guide to current APIs which I sincerely
hope provide at minimum the same functionality.

-phil
>
> Mario
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> Da: "Phil Race" <philip.race at oracle.com>
> Data: ven, ott 7, 2011 20:24
> Oggetto: Should ATS APIs used for Font.creatFont() be dropped ?
> A: <macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
> PS. In the absence of any informed view to the contrary, I suggest we 
> should
> delete the calls to loadFileFont so that created fonts go via the
> cross-platform rasteriser
> which is what I think happens on Windows too,  but keep the native code
> loadFileFont itself,
> commented out, so that it can be seen and resurrected as necessary.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 10/7/11 3:22 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> > I just looked at
> > http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-365
> >  GraphicsEnvironment.registerFont() returns 'false'
> >
> > The basic reason for the failure is that the font is already
> > registered by createFont() .. so explicitly registering it
> > fails as already registered.
> >
> > That's easy enough to fix for the PFB font but for a TTF font
> > there's the wrinkle that unlike the PFB font its being successfully
> > loaded via a native call to ATS. That also somehow causes the font to be
> > registered.
> >
> > I suppose we could try to fight whatever makes that automatically
> > registered.
> >
> > But I also think we'd need to make sure that fonts used in this way
> > but not registered are properly GC'd .. I am not sure if that is
> > happening right now.
> >
> > But is the ATS code worth keeping? loadFileFont() only used for
> > Font.createFont()?
> >
> > -phil.
> >
> >
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