JavaFX Toolkit and Pipeline details

[Scott Palmer]

RT-29368 - Provide a method to determine if HW vs SW rendering is used

Done.

On 2013-04-01, at 11:52 AM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:

> Most of these are internal details that we would not want to provide via public API, but knowing whether it is running as HW versus SW is helpful, as long as it is exposed as some sort of capability rather than a specific pipeline name.
> 
> Can you log a new JIRA (Tweak) for this?
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Scott Palmer wrote:
>> 
>> Okay.  Next question… should there be a public API for this?  I realize that most applications shouldn't care about it, but tech support people might.  If a customer complains that my app is flickering, or slow, etc. and I can grab this information and see that hardware acceleration is not enabled for some reason, that would be helpful.
>> Presumably someone at Oracle agrees because I doubt the Scene Builder devs put it there just for fun :-)
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013-04-01, at 10:31 AM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> There is no public API for this information.
>>> 
>>> -- Kevin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Scott Palmer wrote:
>>>     
>>>> The About Box for Scene Builder shows:
>>>> 
>>>> JavaFX
>>>> Toolkit = QuantumToolkit
>>>> Pipeline = D3DPipeline
>>>> Hardware acceleration ENABLED
>>>> 
>>>> How can I get this information to show something similar in my application
>>>> about box?
>>>> (I looked for system properties along the lines of AWT/Swing's
>>>> "awt.toolkit", "java.awt.graphicsenv" etc.. but didn't see anything).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Scott
>>>>  
>>>>       
>> 
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