Font support

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Thu Apr 19 16:14:01 PDT 2012


I didn't say it was different from Windows. I said it was the *same*.

 > 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.

What do you mean here ? What are you doing ? Deprecated methods should 
be left alone.

-phil.

On 4/19/2012 3:53 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.
>



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