Hi Dany,
I'm not sure what's wrong but, for what its worth, I use:
NSFont * aFont = [NSFont fontWithName: @"Cochin" size: 10.0];
aFont = [fontManager convertFont: aFont
toHaveTrait: NSBoldFontMask];
Cheers,
Steve
On 14 Nov 11, at 4:15pm, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
> I am trying to make cocoa application draw bold or/and italic fonts. Here is
> the code I use:
>
> NSFontTraitMask fontStyle = 0;
> if (m_bBold)
> fontStyle |= NSBoldFontMask;
> if (m_bItalic)
> fontStyle |= NSItalicFontMask;
>
> NSFontManager* fontManager = [NSFontManager sharedFontManager];
> NSFont* font = [fontManager fontWithFamily:@"Helvetica" traits:fontStyle
> weight:5 size:12];
>
> As far as I understand all that fontManager does is just convert to the
> correct font name.
> So it works fine. It converts Helvetica to Helvetica-Bold or Verdana to
> Verdana-Bold.
>
> However, the displayed font is not always what I asked. For example, It works
> with Verdana (I see it bold). But it does not works with Helvetica. Although
> the name is converted to Helvetica-Bold, the fonts are still regular.
>
> What is the mistake here?
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