iOS Default font is wrong

[Stephen F Northover]

If the OS is reporting the wrong value for the default a classic trick 
is to create a dummy control that normally has the font we want and 
query that.

Steve

On 2013-10-29 11:21 AM, Richard Bair wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> The default font for iOS is supposed to be System Bold 15 (according to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17325152/what-size-font-is-the-title-in-a-default-uibutton anyway), and it does look more correct to me. Our code is getting to this native method in MacFontFinder.c
>
> JNIEXPORT jfloat JNICALL Java_com_sun_javafx_font_MacFontFinder_getSystemFontSize
>    (JNIEnv *env, jclass obj)
> {
>      CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage(
>                           kCTFontSystemFontType,
>                           0.0, //get system font with default size
>                           NULL);
>      jfloat systemFontDefaultSize = (jfloat) CTFontGetSize (font);
>      CFRelease(font);
>      return systemFontDefaultSize;
> }
>
>
> However it appears the return value is 13 instead of 15 (and I don't know what the actual default font family / weight is that we're returning). It is possible the answer coming from this native API call is "wrong". Any ideas?
>
> Richard