Bug 510741 - [Cocoa]Text lowered badly on Widgets when using system font with Italics style
Summary: [Cocoa]Text lowered badly on Widgets when using system font with Italics style
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
Keywords: helpwanted, triaged
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Reported: 2017-01-20 05:15 EST by Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA
Modified: 2020-12-11 00:08 EST (History)
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Description Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-01-20 05:15:25 EST 
Beginning with Mac 10.10, the text is lowered in some controls, sometimes to the point that font descenders are cut off. This problems happens when system font is used with bold or italics style.
Bug #481144 fixed the problem with BOLD style, this bug tracks the fix for italics style.
Comment 1 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-01-25 00:51:54 EST 
Targeting for 4.6.3. This problem doesn't seem to affect the IDE, unlike Bug 481144.
Skipping convertFont and setting the italics style using extraTraits fixes the problem for most of the widgets. But, doesn't change to text to italics for text widget.
Comment 2 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-01-25 00:53:34 EST 
Phillip, do you have any ideas to address this problem?
Comment 3 Phillip Webb CLA 2017-01-25 12:04:50 EST 
Not really I'm afraid. I think this is actually an Apple bug but they weren't able to reproduce it. If you're able to create a sample without SWT in the mix you might get more luck than I did.
Comment 4 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-02-09 23:09:21 EST 
I tried to workaround this by using extra-traits to set the italics. It seems to work for most widgets, but fails for Text widget.
Moving to 4.7 for now.
Comment 5 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2017-03-24 05:44:24 EDT 
This looks like an Apple bug. I doubt if I'll be able to look at the workaround for 4.7.
Comment 6 Lakshmi P Shanmugam CLA 2018-04-09 07:43:22 EDT 
Seems like an Apple bug and doesn't happen in the IDE. Moving out of 4.8.
Comment 7 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-12-11 00:08:08 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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