paul.charlton@eng 1998-04-18

Various font architecture changes for cleanup of API.

class java.awt.Font.java
removed:
 <! public static final java.awt.Font DEFAULT;
(non-essential, workarounds easy, causes race conditions during initialization)

 <! protected java.lang.String fontName;
(state available from native equivalent, no need to cache inside of Font)

 <! public java.awt.Font(sun.awt.font.FontObject);
(implementation specific, no longer needed, was not usable by an
application to begin with)

removed:
 <! public static java.awt.Font getBestFontFor(java.text.AttributedCharacterIterator);
 <! public static java.awt.Font getBestFontFor(java.text.AttributedCharacterIterator, int, int);
(utility value limited and potentially very confusing in the presence of fonts containing characters from multiple script systems, recommend posting equivalent sample code)

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class java.awt.font.TextLayout.java

added:
 !> public java.awt.Shape getOutline(java.awt.geom.AffineTransform, float, float);
(required for consistency with 2D rendering model. Necessary to allow custom paint and brush styles.)

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class java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.java
removed:
 <! public abstract java.awt.Font getFont(java.lang.String);
(duplicates functionality of getFont(Map attributes) while adding no significant value)

added:
 !> public abstract java.lang.String getAvailableFontFamilyNames()[];
 !> public abstract java.lang.String getAvailableFontFamilyNames(java.util.Locale)[];
(needed to present font selection picker in a GUI ... user needs localized display names of fonts)

 !> public abstract boolean registerFont(java.io.InputStream, boolean);
(Needed to allow application to register fonts at runtime. The boolean flag is used to allow the application to request persistence of the data stream (security permitting, of course))



paul.charlton@eng 1998-04-23
From review:
remove public abstract boolean registerFont(java.io.InputStream, boolean);

replace with:
public boolean registerFont(byte []);