I missed that one. It was assigned a little oddly to someone not really
working on fonts
so I've grabbed it and will address under that ID.
-phil.
On 12/9/2014 3:31 PM, Jeff Hain wrote:
>https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-6808
Created a JIRA account to be able to see this, but I still can't
(permission violation).
Meanwhile, I saw this one, which seems to be what I ask for :
- https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-37081 (Add withXxx semantics
to Font to create derived versions)
And this one, which I had in mind too :
- https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-8060 (Need font/text
measurement API)
An ambiguous thing on this derivation topic is that there is a notion
of style intrinsic to fonts,
like in "FreeMono.ttf is not bold, and FreeMono-Bold.ttf is bold", and
also a notion
of style extrinsic to fonts, like when you use a font loaded from a
".ttf" file with
a custom weight, and these two notions are often mixed-up.
>So if anyone (external) would like to file an RFE directly requesting it
>along with justification, that might be better than me filing one.
Better than a justification based on a particular use case, I think we
could
just consider that it is a basic feature that should "of course" be
implemented ;)
(especially not to introduce a "regression" for ex-AWT users, when
moving to JavaFX).
But in case it could help, here is my use case :
I'm working on set of basic interfaces on top of which I could build
basic UIs
(I don't need FX things), the same way that most of my scheduling code
depends
on a few interfaces like Executor, and not directly on
ThreadPoolExecutor or
ForkJoinPool or else.
I'm not only doing it not to tie high level UI code to a particular
low-to-high level
UI framework, but also because I have some particular needs that
AWT/Swing/JavaFX
don't support out of the box, and would make hard to implement.
On the low-level side of all this, i.e. where these interfaces get
implemented,
most things are working well so far (Graphics2D/GraphicsContext for
drawing,
EDT/AppThread as UI thread, etc.), I'm just having this little and
unexpected
trouble with JavaFX fonts.
-Jeff
