Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java claims WORA Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 04:43:37 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <8bc88bdc-bd63-4dd2-ba6c-cb0a7622fa1f@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15554 On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:59:43 -0400, "John B. Matthews" wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I'll second the need for testing, but I've found that using layouts >properly and respecting a component's preferred size greatly reduces >the number of cross-platform problems. There's a recent example here: one of the big problems is when you substitute a font, the characters are not the same size. I would like to normalize fonts to their true size so that when you substitute fonts, the actual real estate consumed varies only a little. Another would be a guaranteed to render all glyphs, even if it means substituting from some other font. Failing that at telling the truth. Java claims to render a glyph when all it does in render some generic glyph. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Computers are machines that do exactly what you tell them, but they still can surprise you with the results. ~ Dr. Richard Dawkins 1941-03-26