retina support

Artem Ananiev artem.ananiev at oracle.com
Thu Jun 28 05:56:48 PDT 2012


On 6/28/2012 4:43 PM, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
> I guess the last one you mention is more appropriate for the issue at hand:
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7124410
>
> Is anybody working on this? I mean - has it hit Oracle's radar at all?

It's on radar, both AWT/Swing and JavaFX teams are aware of this issue. 
I can't say for sure what release the fix(es) are targeted to, but very 
unlikely we'll implement HiDPI support on Mac in 7uX (JDK) and 2.x (JavaFX).

Thanks,

Artem

> -hendrik
>
> On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>
>> And also, one more Mac-specific CR:
>>
>> 7124410 [macosx] Lion HiDPI support
>>
>> --
>> best regards,
>> Anthony
>>
>> On 06/28/12 16:37, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>>> There's a CR:
>>>
>>> CR 6486815 RFE: initial Swing support for resolution independence
>>>
>>> Though there's no progress on it since 2006.
>>>
>>> --
>>> best regards,
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On 06/28/12 11:23, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> starting with the new Retina enabled MacBook Pro Apple has started
>>>> offering Retina support in regular computers. This is a challenge to
>>>> Java devs, because as of now, Java's support for Retina is… not so great.
>>>>
>>>> Please see the discussion at
>>>> http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2012/Jun/msg00094.html
>>>>
>>>> Some sort of mechanism is needed that does not rely on NSImage
>>>> trickery, but still supports correct rendering in HiDPI mode.
>>>> Do you guys have support for this in the pipeline? Perhaps there is
>>>> already a bug in the database?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -hendrik
>


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