<AWT Dev> RFR: 8182043 Access to Windows Large Icons

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 6/17/20 5:50 pm, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:

> I guess it is too early to compare behavior before and after the fix since the fix has a few bugs.
>   - It does not fetch several sizes, as it was expected from the code, but load only one native size
> and map it to the different resolutions.
>   - It reverts part of the JDK-8151385, and as far as I understand the bug described in
>     8151385 starts to reproduce.
> 
> BTW I think the best possible fix is to load all actually existed icons into the MRI:
>   - The user will be able to use any of these icons via MRI.getResolutionVariants()
>   - And it solves all problems related to HiDPI.
> But the open question is it possible to "load all actually existed icons" or not.

And if that's not possible then we need to investigate different possible approaches.
  - Returning exact icon as the user requested
  - Returning some predefined array of icons
  - Returning some predefined MRI.
  - Load all the icons at once
  - Load icons on the fly when the rendering are occurring
etc.

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Best regards, Sergey.