Nimbus color differences between JDK versions

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

   Hi Robert,

  Could you send a sample that draws a JTree and set necessary 
icons/colors in the Nimbus L&F to investigate the issue?

   Thanks,
   Alexandr.


On 1/30/2014 12:52 PM, Robert Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are in the process of migrating an application from Apple JDK 6 to
> OpenJDK 8, which is going pretty well thanks to the progress that's
> been made in recent months by the Oracle team (thanks for that). Now
> we discovered that for the time being we will have to deploy with a
> bundled Oracle JRE 7 (currently testing v. 1.7.0_51). When we started
> our application with that runtime, we encountered significant problems
> with UI colors (see attached screen shots comparing a tree in the
> three mentioned runtimes). Now, the color difference between Apple JDK
> and Open JDK is not the main problem but the one with Oracle JRE 7
> certainly is because in Nimbus (which we use with some color
> modifications), the color changes don't seem to be consistent leading
> to the effect that you see in the tree example. Before I put lots of
> "if (jdkVersion == X) modify colors ..." in our code and adjust this
> by trial and error, is this known and is there a better approach for
> solving this systematically?
>
> Here are the screenshots as links (if they don't make it through as
> attachments):
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33388463/colors-jdk6-s.png
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33388463/colors-jdk7-s.png
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33388463/colors-jdk8-s.png
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert