Integrated: 8355203: [macos] AquaButtonUI and AquaRootPaneUI repaint default button unnecessarily

Jeremy Wood duke at openjdk.org
Sun Apr 27 11:26:54 UTC 2025


On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:52:18 GMT, Jeremy Wood <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This removes the constant repainting of the AquaRootPaneUI's default button.
> 
> A long time ago (before Mac OS Yosemite, around 2014) this was needed to match Aqua's native experience. But the default button no longer pulses, so we don't need to repaint ("pulse") the button continually.
> 
> Here's a clip from a YouTube video I found demonstrating the pulsing effect that this PR removes (you may want to turn your volume off):
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> https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/496bc003-ccba-4178-81bc-765e96d94316
> 
> This PR includes a test, but this test has never failed. (That is: this PR does not resolve a failing test.) This test would fail if the default button ever looked the same as a non-default button.
> 
> My primary goal here was to remove the AquaButtonUI's AncestorListener, but while we're here we might as well remove the AquaRootPaneUI's timer and other cleanup.
> 
> I tried and failed to rename the `private static final byte _pulsed` constant. (More details [here](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/89d0689f226b9e883df464e6f3e8c20074970499).) If anyone has suggestions for how to rename that without errors please let me know.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 04bb5dcf
Author:    jeremy <jeremy.wood at mac.com>
Committer: SendaoYan <syan at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/04bb5dcf5759509e0239a6049db9ae2b97880aa9
Stats:     389 lines in 5 files changed: 257 ins; 127 del; 5 mod

8355203: [macos] AquaButtonUI and AquaRootPaneUI repaint default button unnecessarily

Reviewed-by: serb, prr

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24778


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