The only problem is that the CSS requires a UI control, so just putting a Text
node up gets the wrong size. Also the API we have to say get the default font
will be wrong. We could just hard-code in a hack for iOS maybe?
Richard
On Oct 30, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Felipe Heidrich <felipe.heidr...@oracle.com>
wrote:
> Could we call UIFont using Objective-C Runtime
>
> Something like:
> id class_UIFont = objc_getClass("UIFont");
> SEL sel_labelFontSize = sel_registerName("labelFontSize");
> float size = objc_msgSend_fpret(class_UIFont, sel_labelFontSize);
>
> ?
> Anyway, we are back to the original question: What font to use.
> Reading Richard's original request we are still not getting the recommend
> font which is bold.
>
> I start to think the answer to get this right in the CSS…
>
> Felipe
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Oldrich Maticka <oldrich.mati...@oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() returns fonts with same sizes for both iOS
>> and Mac OS X. See table below.
>>
>> Unfortunately I made a mistake when I wrote 15.0 for
>> CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage(kCTFontPushButtonFontType) font size,
>> unfortunately it is 13.0. Other sizes reported were correct (I have verified
>> it yet once).
>>
>>
>> iPad3 (iOS7.0) MacOSX 10.8
>> kCTFontUserFontType 12 12
>> kCTFontUserFixedPitchFontType 10 10
>> kCTFontSystemFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontEmphasizedSystemFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontSmallSystemFontType 11 11
>> kCTFontSmallEmphasizedSystemFontType 11 11
>> kCTFontMiniSystemFontType 9 9
>> kCTFontMiniEmphasizedSystemFontType 9 9
>> kCTFontViewsFontType 12 12
>> kCTFontApplicationFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontLabelFontType 10 10
>> kCTFontMenuTitleFontType 14 14
>> kCTFontMenuItemFontType 14 14
>> kCTFontMenuItemMarkFontType 14 14
>> kCTFontMenuItemCmdKeyFontType 14 14
>> kCTFontWindowTitleFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontPushButtonFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontUtilityWindowTitleFontType 11 11
>> kCTFontAlertHeaderFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontSystemDetailFontType 9 9
>> kCTFontEmphasizedSystemDetailFontType 9 9
>> kCTFontToolbarFontType 11 11
>> kCTFontSmallToolbarFontType 10 10
>> kCTFontMessageFontType 13 13
>> kCTFontPaletteFontType 11 11
>> kCTFontToolTipFontType 11 11
>> kCTFontControlContentFontType 12 12
>>
>> Oldrich
>>
>> On 10/30/13 4:38 PM, Felipe Heidrich wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Correct me if I'm wrong, to use UIWhatever or NSWhatever we will need
>>> Objective-C (or use the ugly objc_msgSend).
>>> That is more work as we don't have Objective-C in native font code.
>>> Besides, creating a Button requires, usually, a lot more boilerplate code.
>>> We will also have to link to UIKit frameworks, etc.
>>>
>>> Now, creating a CTFont using
>>> CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage(kCTFontPushButtonFontType) would be a very
>>> easy change.
>>>
>>> Oldrich, could you please prepare a table with the fontSize for all values
>>> on CTFontUIFontType for MacOSX and iOS ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 30, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Stephen F Northover
>>> <steve.x.northo...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Let's use UIButton as this seems to match the stack overflow discussion.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> On 2013-10-30 7:51 AM, Oldrich Maticka wrote:
>>>>> I have tried simple app with several controls. Fonts in Interface Builder
>>>>> -
>>>>>
>>>>> UIButton - System 15.0
>>>>> UILabel - System 17.0
>>>>> UITextField - System 14.0
>>>>> UITextView - System 14.0
>>>>>
>>>>> Same fontsize - 15.0 has UIButton's label created at runtime.
>>>>>
>>>>> UIFont class methods for getting system font information return:
>>>>> + labelFontSize 17.0
>>>>> + buttonFontSize 18.0
>>>>> + smallSystemFontSize 12.0
>>>>> + systemFontSize 14.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In fx Java_com_sun_javafx_font_MacFontFinder_getSystemFontSize returns
>>>>> 13.0
>>>>>
>>>>> We can use different CTFontUIFontType in this method to return something
>>>>> "better" than 13.0 -
>>>>> e.g. with kCTFontPushButtonFontType as an argument to
>>>>> CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() it returns 15.0, but we need to decide,
>>>>> what we want to use as default. Should be our system default the size
>>>>> same as for UIButton, UILabel or other control?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I was using iPad3 (iOS 7.0, Xcode 5.0).
>>>>>
>>>>> Olda
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/29/13 7:32 PM, Stephen F Northover wrote:
>>>>>> I was going to create a dummy control (say a Button) and ask for the
>>>>>> font. Just an idea.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2013-10-29 2:18 PM, Felipe Heidrich wrote:
>>>>>>> The code Richard sent is creating a dummy font and asking for its size.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem is that there are about 3 thousand different fonts on the
>>>>>>> Mac ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here we are creating a CTFont. For Mac OS X most native apps probably
>>>>>>> would be using a NSFont (cause that is what cocoa controls take).
>>>>>>> Likewise on iOS I think the "common" font is UIFont (cause I think that
>>>>>>> is what UIKIt controls take).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could anyone fire up Xcode, create a dummy iOS app, create a UIFont and
>>>>>>> see what is the size ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Felipe
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Stephen F Northover
>>>>>>> <steve.x.northo...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
>>
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