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

[Jim Graham]

Thanks Hendrik, no apologies necessary.

I haven't been involved much in the MacOS port so my question was 
actually a legitimate call for information and not meant to criticize 
anyone's input.  I actually searched for a developer page that mentioned 
the MacOS port's retina handling and all I could find were references to 
setting the flag in your plist to enable retina - I didn't even find an 
official announcement that they would load the @2x for you, but I 
assumed that they would...

			...jim

On 11/7/13 12:41 PM, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Jim Graham wrote:
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>> How did Apple expose this in their JDK6?
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>> 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.
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>> 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().
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>> What did Apple provide beyond getImage()/drawImage() support for @2x file/URL resources?
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>> 			...jim
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> Sorry guys, to cause confusion. I really should have read the whole thread - I haven't (also see http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2013-November/006209.html). Apple didn't have any public APIs beyond the Toolkit.getImage(...); method. It loaded the appropriate image, i.e. a @2x version if available.
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> There wasn't anything else (not without hacking the private APIs -> http://blog.beatunes.com/2013/04/creating-retina-capable-images-with.html)
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> So - Jim - again sorry,
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> -hendrik
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