Re: Opal, NSFont, NSFontDescription and AppKit

[Gregory Casamento]

None that I'm currently aware of.

GC

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Opal and AppKit both contain mutually incompatible NSFont implementations.
> This means that my attempts to make use of Opal in an AppKit app are failing
> miserably (and only at runtime).
>
> It may be wise if someone more experienced with both AppKit and Opal would
> patch this. My current idea boils down to adding the few new ivars into
> AppKit, and to move any added methods into a category that'd ship as part of
> Opal.
>
> This would have a bad side effect of making Opal dependent on AppKit or
> another library that implements NSFont. Since UIKit doesn't contain NSFont,
> Apple's implementation obviously doesn't depend on NSFont. So, an
> alternative is to rename Opal's NSFont and explore what APIs would be
> broken.
>
> What free software currently uses Opal?
> --
> Ivan Vučica - ivan@vucica.net
>
>
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