Rich Text Support

[Nir Lisker]

That would be great, Phil. It will serve much more than just rich text.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:40 PM Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

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> On 10/03/2018 05:50 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> > I think to start, probably a class like Swing's FontMetrics would be good
> > to have? Before Java 9 there was one but it was private implementation.
> > Just to have the basic API that would allow to build rich text editing
> > support more easily, sorted out..
> > This is also, generally, needed for calculating how to lay out text.
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> I agree, and maybe I should aim to finally implement this in 12 :
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8090775: Need font/text
> measurement API
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> -phil.
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