Are more font variants in the pipeline?

[Phil Race]

The creators of related FX 1.X API  exposed a lot of API that
was present on the Java 2D APIs as it was basically sitting on top of all
the existing AWT/2D/Swing APIs which had similar API.

But unbeknown to the FX 1.X API designers the width/weight support they
were calling down to didn't really as do much of what it appeared to support
as you might hope. At least not on the Sun implementation.

FX 2 has even less (zero) of that since Prism etc. is a new stack entirely.
So we are starting from square one and such API was 100% non-functional
so was removed until such time as there could be an implementation to 
support it.

-phil.

On 8/17/2012 8:30 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:
> Yes Richard, I am able to load the font properly using code like this:
>
> 		URL openSansSemiboldUrl = getClass().getResource("/fonts/OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.ttf");
> 		Font openSansSemiboldFont = Font.loadFont(openSansSemiboldUrl.toString(), 12);
>
> The font is loaded just fine, and it even has properties telling that it is the semibold variant I have loaded.
>
> What I don't get is, why was the support for styling with these variants abandoned from JavaFX 1.x to 2.x? If you look here, you will see that constants like SEMI_BOLD, LIGHT etc. used to be supported:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17802_01/javafx/javafx/1.1/docs/api/javafx.scene.text/javafx.scene.text.FontWeight.html
>
> As Phil just mentioned, I can also style my App with the font using a full font name like this
> 	-fx-font-family: "Open Sans Semibold";
> But the problem with this approach is, I get the font family dependency spread out over all of my CSS code (many lines containing "Open Sans").
>
> In stead I was hoping to be able to just style my application using
> 	-fx-font-weight: semibold;
> thereby only choosing the "Open Sans" font once, and letting different part of my app use different weights.
>
> Again, I do not get why support for this was removed from JavaFX.
>
> Yours
>
> Randahl
>
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2012, at 16:50 , Richard Bair<Richard.Bair at oracle.com>  wrote:
>
>> Are you able to get the font in Extrabold from within Java code? That is, do you know the problem is CSS or is it in the platform itself?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Richard
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed that the current CSS implementation only supports regular fonts, italic fonts, and bold fonts.
>>>
>>> Many modern fonts come in more variants – Open Sans, for instance, comes in variants
>>> Light, Regular, Italic, Light Italic, Bold, Extrabold, Semibold, Bold Italic, Extrabold Italic, and Semibold Italic.
>>>
>>> Have I overlooked something or am I right that it is impossible to style a JavaFX app using CSS and get one of these variants, say, Open Sans Semibold?
>>>
>>> Randahl
>>>
>>>