[Development] QFont::setFamily("monospace") on OS X

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday January 21 2016 20:31:52 Liang Qi wrote:

Possibly, but that function takes a font type, not a family name. So it's probably the culprit only if it is called with the FixedFont type after someone did setFamily("monospace").

R.

> Perhaps QPlatformTheme::font() is related.
> 
> https://github.com/qtproject/qtbase/blob/5.6/src/gui/kernel/qplatformtheme.h
> 
> Regards,
> Liang
> 
> On 21 January 2016 at 18:29, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Not sure if this is the best place to ask:
> > I think QFont::setFamily("monospace") should allow to obtain an
> > appropriate monospace font on all platforms. It does with the XCB QPA ,
> > giving me the Consolas font (ideally it should return the fixed-width font
> > that goes with the active (platform) style, though).
> > On OS X with the cocoa QPA however, this gives Lucida Grande, i.e. the
> > system fallback font.
> >
> > I suppose that's a bug, or is there a reason why this doesn't work as
> > expected?
> >
> > Cf: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-50564
> >
> > R.
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