LCD font smoothing in Text has no effect

[Richard Bair]

Whoa, I found that surprising. Can you file a bug and we'll investigate.

Thanks
Richard

On May 31, 2012, at 11:06 PM, John C. Turnbull wrote:

> Hmm, works in a stand-alone application.  Maybe it's a bug in Scene Builder?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -jct
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Race [mailto:philip.race at oracle.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012 15:16
> To: John C. Turnbull
> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: LCD font smoothing in Text has no effect
> 
> I think you should try this outside of scene builder first to eliminate
> that.
> If SceneBuilder is creating a shaped window and you are embedded in it then
> you won't get LCD text.
> 
> -phil.
> 
> On 5/31/12 10:01 PM, John C. Turnbull wrote:
>> All I am doing is placing a Text object on top of a filled Rectangle 
>> in Scene Builder b40.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -jct
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Phil Race [mailto:philip.race at oracle.com]
>> Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012 14:23
>> To: John C. Turnbull
>> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: LCD font smoothing in Text has no effect
>> 
>> So are you using a shaped window or transparency ?
>> In those cases you may get grayscale. The most recent 2.2 builds will 
>> fix this IFF the transparency is not under the text pixels.
>> 
>> -phil.
>> 
>> On 5/31/12 9:19 PM, John C. Turnbull wrote:
>>> Looks like I am getting Direct3D...
>>> 
>>> Prism pipeline init order: d3d j2d
>>> Using t2k for text rasterization
>>> Using dirty region optimizations
>>> Prism pipeline name = com.sun.prism.d3d.D3DPipeline Loading D3D 
>>> native library ...
>>> 	succeeded.
>>> Direct3D initialization succeeded
>>> (X) Got class = class com.sun.prism.d3d.D3DPipeline Initialized prism
>>> pipeline: com.sun.prism.d3d.D3DPipeline OS Information:
>>> 	Windows 7 build 7601
>>> D3D Driver Information:
>>> 	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
>>> 	\\.\DISPLAY1
>>> 	Driver nvd3dumx.dll, version 8.17.12.9635
>>> 	Pixel Shader version 3.0
>>> 	Device : ven_10DE, dev_05FD, subsys_059310DE
>>> 
>>> ...but I still get greyscale antialiasing.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> -jct
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Phil Race [mailto:philip.race at oracle.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012 13:50
>>> To: John C. Turnbull
>>> Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: LCD font smoothing in Text has no effect
>>> 
>>> -Dprism.verbose=true to see which renderer is used.
>>> 
>>> Are you getting 2D or D3D/OGL ?
>>> 
>>> 2D isn't set up to do it and we probably won't fix that because it 
>>> won't matter once we stop using it in 3.0
>>> 
>>> -phil.
>>> 
>>> On 5/31/12 8:36 PM, John C. Turnbull wrote:
>>>> I have never been able to see any difference when I set the font 
>>>> smoothing option to LCD in a Text control even with the latest 
>>>> JavaFX
>>>> 2.2 drop.  Gray scale antialiasing is still in use.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is this something likely to be fixed soon?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -jct
>>>> 
>