Bug 1861 - Dialog needs to use the JFaceResources dialog font (1G78RQ1)
Summary: Dialog needs to use the JFaceResources dialog font (1G78RQ1)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All Windows NT
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.1   Edit
Assignee: Randy Giffen CLA
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Reported: 2001-10-10 22:20 EDT by Randy Giffen CLA
Modified: 2002-08-01 12:30 EDT (History)
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Description Randy Giffen CLA 2001-10-10 22:20:57 EDT 
The JFace dialog hierarchy is using the default widget font.  
It needs to get the font for its widgets from JFaceResources.
The problem is that currently the dialog font returned from JFaceResources is not
the same as the platform dialog font (at least on Windows).

NOTES:
	RG (5/4/01 5:17:39 PM)
		Correct on windows but not Linux
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-24 06:48:29 EDT 
PRODUCT VERSION:
015b
Comment 2 Randy Giffen CLA 2001-12-14 14:56:29 EST 
Currently our UI does not support setting a dialog font so there is little 
point in changing all our code unless we are going to add this to the UI. Also 
it seems appropriate that our dialogs use the default system font for platform 
look and feel. Thus I suggest this is a low priority. Tod do you agree?
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2001-12-17 10:19:48 EST 
For us to follow the platform look and feel guidelines for Windows this is a 
requirement as the default font and the recommended dialog font are different 
(MS Sans Serif as opposed to Tacoma).

We do not expose this is in the UI currently as the dialog font is not being 
used everywhere it should - until we do a sweep of the UI to start using it it 
is not worth putting in the preference - it would only confuse users.

This is a big change so the priority should be low but we should do it at some 
point.
Comment 4 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-04-18 16:01:43 EDT 
Moving to later, Tod has our story in this area changed for 2.0?
Comment 5 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-04-22 07:56:40 EDT 
No - nothing has changed for 2.0.
Comment 6 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-01 12:30:13 EDT 
Reopened to close
Comment 7 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-01 12:30:57 EDT 
Fixed by Tod for 2.1