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

[David Ray]

That is great news. Thanks Steve for the update. 

Cheers,
David 

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On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:02 AM, steve.x.northover at oracle.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Felipe Heidrich is the text guy.  The focus has been on getting native text rendering working first on the desktop.  That said, the code was written with iOS in mind and should not be far away.
> 
> I suggest that you enter a JIRA to track the work.  People who are interested in tracking the work and contributing patches can coordinate in the JIRA and on this list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> On 03/07/2013 8:35 AM, cogmission1 . wrote:
>> 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...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>