Font support (original) (raw)

Michael Hall mik3hall at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 16:05:23 PDT 2012

On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Michael Hall wrote:

On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Phil Race wrote:

The program is behaving correctly and consistently with the Windows implementation AWT components (java.awt.Button etc) and the AWT toolkit only support the logical fonts and that's all this method will enumerate.

We have deprecated methods to indicate there are better alternatives and that may have been over done some times. We have never removed deprecated methods so I don't think we'll remove this one either. I actually have been putting some time into this code trying to clean up some of the deprecated but it still has quite a ways to go. Most developers have over time probably been better about that than I have. I would have to say it is unfortunate this behavior differs from the Windows implementation. It might be old Mac code you need to worry about here. Should probably have said that I will probably still file the bug report as a behavior change from prior OS X jvm's. If it's decided to close it since it is deprecated anyhow and the Windows implementation is the correct handling that's OK with me. I plan on changing mine as Claudio mentioned.

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