RFR: 8370652: Control and ScrollPaneSkin should snap computed width/height values to prevent scrollbars appearing due to rounding errors

Kevin Rushforth kcr at openjdk.org
Mon Oct 27 22:21:17 UTC 2025


On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:26:33 GMT, John Hendrikx <jhendrikx at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR will snap the values returned by `ScrollPaneSkin`s compute methods, and `Control`s `layoutChildren` method to prevent scroll bars from showing up (when using the `AS_NEEDED` policy) due to subtle rounding errors.  The scroll pane internally will compare its own height (minus insets) with its content height, and determine if vertical (or horizontal) scroll bar needs to be shown.  If the values being compared are even slightly off (by a few ulp's in floating point terms) then it may conclude a scroll bar should be shown when it should not be.
> 
> See the sample program and video in the related JBS ticket.
> 
> Note: in many places we forget to resnap values after seemingly innocent floating point calculations (even when all values involved are snapped already, errors can be introduced).  It is out of scope for this PR to fix all of these.
> 
> Note 2: since we only want to fix a rounding error, `snapSpace` is used and not `snapSize` as the latter will ceil values which would make tiny errors worse if they are just one ulp above the desired value.

LGTM. If you do decide to add a test, I'll reapprove.

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Marked as reviewed by kcr (Lead).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1948#pullrequestreview-3385651048


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