White flashing when opening Dialogs, Menus etc.

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Robert.
This is unknown issue. Please file a new bug at 
http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport
Thanks!

On 05.02.2014 19:01, Robert Krüger wrote:
> This is a simple test case for you to reproduce the flashing for
> opening a Dialog. It's basically the same for JMenus.
>
> import javax.swing.JButton;
> import javax.swing.JFrame;
> import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
> import javax.swing.UIDefaults;
> import javax.swing.UIManager;
> import javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo;
> import javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource;
> import java.awt.Color;
> import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
> import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
>
> public class TestDarkNimbus {
>
>      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>
>          for(LookAndFeelInfo info : UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()){
>              if(info.getName().startsWith("Nimbus")){
>                  System.out.println("Setting Look & Feel to " + info.getName());
>                  UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
>                  break;
>              }
>          }
>
>          UIDefaults d = UIManager.getDefaults();
>          d.put("control", new ColorUIResource(54, 54, 54));
>          d.put("text", new ColorUIResource(214, 214, 214));
>          d.put("nimbusBlueGrey", new ColorUIResource(44, 44, 44));
>          d.put("nimbusBase", new ColorUIResource(54, 54, 54));
>          d.put("nimbusFocus", new Color(71, 85, 101));
>          d.put("nimbusLightBackground", new ColorUIResource(54, 54, 54));
>          d.put("nimbusSelectionBackground", new ColorUIResource(51, 65, 81));
>          d.put("nimbusSelection", new ColorUIResource(51, 65, 81));
>
>          final JFrame frame = new JFrame(TestDarkNimbus.class.getSimpleName());
>          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
>          JButton button = new JButton("Test Dialog Flashing");
>          button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
>              @Override
>              public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
>                  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame.getContentPane(),
> "Flash !!!!!!!!!!!!", "Flash demo",
>                          JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
>              }
>          });
>          frame.getContentPane().add(button);
>          frame.pack();
>          frame.setLocation(500, 500);
>          frame.setVisible(true);
>      }
> }
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are using a customized Nimbus L&F (the customization is mostly
>> color changes) with dark backgrounds. Since we migrated our product
>> from Apple JDK 6 to OpenJDK 8 each JMenu or JDialog opens and first
>> draws a white rectangle that is then quickly replaced by the real
>> content, which has a rather unprofessional feel.
>>
>> Has anyone had a similar problem and maybe a workaround other than not
>> having a dark background? Is there a known Jira issue I can follow?
>>
>> I am currently running build 121 in development on Mac OS 10.8.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert


-- 
Best regards, Sergey.