Translucent/Shaped Windows

[Doug Zwick]

On 2012-07-19, at 7:39 AM, Artem Ananiev wrote:

> thanks for digging this up. We've already have a number of bugs related
> to java.awt.Window shapes support on Mac, so please don't file new ones
> before making sure they are not duplicates.

I searched for "Window.setShape", "setShape", "PERPIXEL_TRANSLUCENT", "translucency" and "translucent" keywords (and-ed with "Mac"). I found nothing, so I entered 7185105. I don't know why the bugs.sun.com search engine did not match 7124244.

> Whether the fixes will be integrated to 7u6 or postponed until 7u8 is an
> open question. 7u6 development is in the final phase, and only critical
> fixes are accepted. Could you wait until 7u6 is released and check if
> your problems are still there, please?
>
> Another thing you could check is to try JDK8. The fix for 7124244 should
> be there in a few weeks.

Thanks. I'll be off on another project by then, but I've left a note on our bug for our QA folks.

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