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Bug 27405

Summary: Should consider using the new font propogation support
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component: CompareAssignee: Andre Weinand <andre_weinand>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: 2.1 RC2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Tod Creasey CLA 2002-11-29 10:53:12 EST 
20021126

As of build 20021203 the eclipse workbench will now support declarative fonts. 
This will eliminate the need for the PropogatingFontFieldEditor.

There is a new extension point fontDefinition for defining fonts so that they 
can be viewed and managed by the workbench fonts preference page. There is 
also a defaultTo attribute which when set keeps the entry for the 
fontDefinition consistent with the defaultsTo entry if the preference for the 
fontDefinition is not set.

For example if a font called org.eclipse.myplugin.textfont had a defaultsTo of 
org.eclipse.jface.textfont the value in the font registry for 
org.eclipse.myplugin.textfont will be the same as the value for 
org.eclipse.jface.textfont until the user sets a preference for 
org.eclipse.myplugin.textfont .

see the org_eclipse_ui.fontDefinition doc for more details
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-01-20 06:26:07 EST 
*** Bug 26985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-02-19 16:36:10 EST 
Not for RC1
Comment 3 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-03-03 12:53:37 EST 
Waiting for better fix...
Comment 4 Tod Creasey CLA 2003-03-03 12:58:35 EST 
What do you mean by a better fix? Is there a requirement of the font support 
you have?
Comment 5 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-03-03 14:32:55 EST 
See bug 32921.
Comment 6 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-03-03 14:43:27 EST 
[Oops, made comments to wrong bug. My last two comments were for bug 26990.
For this one I don't need a better fix :-]
Comment 7 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-03-04 10:22:50 EST 
reopened for 2.1
Comment 8 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-03-04 12:53:19 EST 
fixed > 20030304