<AWT Dev> RFR: 8040630 Popup menus and tooltips flicker with previous popup contents when first shown
Sergey Bylokhov
Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com
Mon Feb 3 02:07:44 UTC 2020
Hello.
Please review the fix for jdk/client.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8040630
Fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8040630/webrev.00
This change is intended to fix the flickering of popup menus on
macOS. The root cause of the problem is that the native windows
for popup menus are cached internally. So when we show such a
cached window to the user he will see old content till the moment
we draw the new one.
As a fix we could
- Drop the internal state(surface) of the window which contains the
old content, as suggested in the current fix we set its size to 1x1 pixels.
- Clean the old content by something like graphics.clearRect(), but
since the draw operation is asynchronous it is possible it will
not be completed when the user will see the popup.
- Drop the caching completely, I am not sure that we really needed it,
I have checked the performance PopupFactory.getPopup() when the
cache is enabled/disabled and did not found a big difference. But
since I plan to backport this to jdk11, I would like to minimize the
fix, and drop the cache sometime later.
Notes:
- The easiest way to reproduce the bug is to run SwingSet2, and
quickly open/reopen the "File" and "Look and feel" menu.
- The bug is not really macOS specific, but java2D OGL pipeline"
specific where the actual draw operations are asynchronous.
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Best regards, Sergey.
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