Text rendering within pop-ups

[Kevin Rushforth]

Btw, here is the pointer to the bug ID: 
http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-18901

-- Kevin


Thor Johannesson wrote:
> Correct, there is a problem with sub-pixel text on transparent surfaces.  This will be fixed for hardware pipeline by 2.2.
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> The outstanding fix will make use of what color we have in background.  Note if background is fully transparent then sub-pixel antialiasing will be lost, resulting in aa grayscale text.
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> -Thor
> On May 2, 2012, at 8:37 PM, John C. Turnbull wrote:
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>> It seems that text rendered in any "pop-up" context such as menus, combo
>> boxes etc. is rendered without sub-pixel antialiasing (on Windows at least).
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>> Does this have something to do with the transparent nature of pop-ups?  Is
>> it likely to be fixed in the future?
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>> Thanks,
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>> -jct
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