Failure to find any font (probably on Embedded)

[Kevin Rushforth]

 > Embedding URL's in code ... a recipe for stale URL's.

Yeah, that's why I'm not sure I like it...

-- Kevin


Stephen F Northover wrote:
> Embedding URL's in code ... a recipe for stale URL's.  I suppose that 
> we put URL's in JavaDoc though.
>
> Steve
>
> On 2014-02-12 1:53 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> A more informative message and an earlier detection both sound good. 
>> Not sure about the pointer to the Wiki page, though. We haven't done 
>> that in the past that I am aware of. If we do want to go down that 
>> path, I would suggest a pointer to a single, "well-known" support 
>> page that could describe various end-user configuration issues that 
>> we might want to document.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
>> David Hill wrote:
>>>
>>> I am chasing a edge case that probably only happens in certain 
>>> Embedded configurations. If we don't find *any* fonts, then we 
>>> quietly fail and blame it on CSS :-)
>>>
>>> I say blame it on CSS because the resulting hard failure is:
>>> Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" 
>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class 
>>> javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper
>>> This is because CSS needs a font for various calculations.
>>>
>>> With Embedded, if libfontconfig is not present (or improperly 
>>> configured) you will not find any fonts.
>>>
>>> I would like thoughts on my putting a more informative error message 
>>> out, and making zero fonts an earlier hard failure.
>>>
>>> What I would really like to do is to be able to put a URL to a Fonts 
>>> wiki page (like: 
>>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Font+Setup) but not 
>>> sure how well that would stand up to the test of time.
>>>
>>> The code point in FontConfigManager is:
>>>
>>>         if (anyFont == null) {
>>>             if (debugFonts) {
>>>                 System.err.println("Fontconfig returned no fonts at 
>>> all.");
>>>             }
>>>             fontConfigFailed = true;
>>>             return;
>>>
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