Hi Glenn, Thank you for answering. Now I can understand why menu item title is black in fonts popup of iWork apps. Even if they are selected.
Regards, RImas M. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Glenn L. Austin <gl...@austin-soft.com>wrote: > > Yes -- don't do that!!! > > You are asking the system to not only iterate through all of the fonts and > styles, but to also set each menu item's text to that font and style. The > iteration part is fairly quick, setting the item text requires that the font > be loaded and prepared for use just to draw that *one text item*. Preparing > each font takes a small amount of time, but multiplied by the 100+ fonts on > a system gives you a noticeable time delay. > > Most applications that draw the font menu using the fonts actually > pre-create the menu items as images of the menu item text, then only display > the image in the menu. > > (History: I've worked on both the AppleWorks and the Microsoft Office 2011 > font menus in my career.) > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
