Font support

Michael Hall mik3hall at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 16:05:23 PDT 2012


On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Michael Hall wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
Should probably have said that I will probably still file the bug report as a behavior change from prior OS X jvm's. If it's decided to close it since it is deprecated anyhow and the Windows implementation is the correct handling that's OK with me. I plan on changing mine as Claudio mentioned.


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