[9] Review request: 8091832: Provide API for getting the Screen scale on HiDPI screens

[Jim Graham]

Windows provides separate values for the X & Y direction.  All of their 
system APIs that deal with screen and window resolutions provide both 
values...

		...jim

On 3/30/2016 12:12 AM, Dr. Michael Paus wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to know on which systems this distinction between X- and
> Y-direction is actually relevant.
> I've never seen such a system before.
> Michael
>
> Am 29.03.16 um 03:25 schrieb Jim Graham:
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8091832
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~flar/JDK-8091832/webrev.rt.00/
>>
>> This webrev fixes pixel snapping and application control over pixel
>> scaling on HiDPI screens:
>>
>> - snap*() methods are all updated to take the current scale into account
>> - new variants of snap*() methods are added for separate X/Y control:
>>     Added: Region.snapSpaceX/Y()
>>     Added: Region.snapSizeX/Y()
>>     Added: Region.snapPositionX/Y()
>> - the non-X/Y variants of the above methods are now deprecated:
>>     Deprecated: Region.snapSpace()
>>     Deprecated: Region.snapSize()
>>     Deprecated: Region.snapPosition()
>> - methods to query the scale values of Screen objects:
>>     Added: Screen.getOutputScaleX/Y()
>> - properties to query and/or modify the scale values of Window objects:
>>     Added Read-Only  DoubleProperty:  Window.getOutputScaleX/Y()
>>     Added Read-Write BooleanProperty:
>> Window.set/getForceIntegerRenderScale()
>>     Added Read-Write DoubleProperty: Window.set/getRenderScaleX/Y()
>>
>> The changes have been compiled and tested on Windows and Mac and there
>> were trivial changes needed to the Linux files to adapt to one new
>> method signature, but I haven't done the test build on Linux yet...
>>
>>             ...jim
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