Well, it did not help, beside the fact that if fontStyle remains 0 the fonts 
looks small and ugly.
Helvetica is still neither bold nor italic.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Hewitson [mailto:martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de] 
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 7:44
To: Dany Golubitsky
Cc: Martin Hewitson; cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Subject: Re: Troubles with Bold and Italic fonts - Cocoa

Danny,

I'm no font expert, but you could try playing with the 'weight' setting. I see 
you have it set to 5. Try setting it to 0 and see if that makes a difference. 
Sometimes when choosing a bold font, the resulting font anyway has a given 
weight. At least this is something I saw only yesterday when trying to toggle a 
font between bold and non-bold.

Cheers,

Martin


On 13, Nov, 2011, at 03:18 PM, Dany Golubitsky 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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