LCD font smoothing in Text has no effect

[John C. Turnbull]

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
>>>