Font support
Michael Hall
mik3hall at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 15:53:18 PDT 2012
On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> The program is behaving correctly and consistently with the Windows implementation
> AWT components (java.awt.Button etc) and the AWT toolkit only support the logical fonts
> and that's all this method will enumerate.
>
> We have deprecated methods to indicate there are better alternatives
> and that may have been over done some times.
>
> We have never removed deprecated methods so I don't think we'll
> remove this one either.
I actually have been putting some time into this code trying to clean up some of the deprecated but it still has quite a ways to go.
Most developers have over time probably been better about that than I have.
I would have to say it is unfortunate this behavior differs from the Windows implementation. It might be old Mac code you need to worry about here.
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