<AWT Dev> [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [8] Review request for 8011059 [macosx] Make JDK demos look perfect on retina displays

[Jim Graham]

How did Apple expose this in their JDK6?

For the record, I'm saying that getImage("myimage.[fmt]") can load the 
@2x image and drawImage() could use that when needed - all of that can 
happen without any public API.

But, for a developer to query a Toolkit Image loaded via getImage("...") 
to find out if it has an @2x variant, we can't do that via the existing 
getScaledInstance() method.  Also, if a developer programmatically 
develops a set of multi-res images, then getScaledInstance() is not the 
mechanism that should be used to supply those to drawImage().

What did Apple provide beyond getImage()/drawImage() support for @2x 
file/URL resources?

			...jim

On 11/7/13 2:46 AM, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
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>>> The @2x mechanism should be based on different API.  I guess it would have to be internal-only for 8.0 and could be exposed to allow developers to call it and possibly to be a provider for it in JDK9...
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> PLEASE, PLEASE don't make us wait until JDK9 for something that worked really well in Apple's JDK6.
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> -hendrik
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