iOS: current state (Read: Who is Oracle's CoreText Guy?) :)

[cogmission1 .]

Hi,

Respectfully, does anyone know who this is? And is a statement of the
status of his work, possible?  Burning ears would like to know :)


Thanks,
David


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:

> I don’t know what Oracle is doing....
>
> We need a statement from the guy from Oracle who is working on the
> CoreText support for Mac / iOS...
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> Am 03.07.2013 um 14:26 schrieb cogmission1 . <cognitionmission at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is that being worked on or did we just hit a brick wall?
>
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to use the latest gradle based OpenJFX on iOS using RoboVM.
>> Current state: it fails: The reason why is the font rendering using
>> CoreText which currently is not possible on iOS.
>>
>> Take a look here: coretext.c => #if TARGET_OS_MAC && !(TARGET_OS_IPHONE)
>>
>> The alternative would be to use the T2K renderer, which is not  available
>> in OpenJFX.
>>
>> So currently we have to wait for an implementation of CoreText native
>> code on iOS.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobi
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