RFR: 6531: Make the flame chart view render labels on windows

[Marcus Hirt]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:47:13 GMT, Miroslav Wengner <mwengner at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> While the guard to only use this on Windows does mitigate impact of this patch, I also am concerned with maintenance of a fork of the d3-flame-graph. I would rather see the upstream updated, or as Marcus stated, the SWT browser updated to use an alternative (newer) browser.
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>> That sounds fair, I replied to the original Windows-related issue and tagged the repo owner, will comment back when there's a response.
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>> In other news it looks like the latest version of Edge is based on Chromium [[0]](https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4501095/download-the-new-microsoft-edge-based-on-chromium), so getting Chromium support would be nice. Progress on that is tracked at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=549585
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>> [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4501095/download-the-new-microsoft-edge-based-on-chromium
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> It doesn't feel right to me to maintain d3-flame-graph fork, as @thegreystone stated it's a bit scary.   
> I'd rather to stay with ECMA 6 due to the d3 library compatibility and its future development. 
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>  I'd propose the way @thegreystone has stated -> SWT update to use an alternative (newer) browser.
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> we are planning to do the search/highlighting of nodes inside the flameview.  This feature uses d3-lib functionality. I don't know whether this patch will not force us to maintain also the fork of d3 itself.

How hard would it be to make SWT use Edge as the default embedded browser and fall back to IE if not available?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jmc/pull/41