<Swing Dev> [12] JDK-8202013: JEditorPane shows large HTML unordered list bullets

[Philip Race]

On 9/3/18, 12:24 AM, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Please review a fix for an issue where it is seen that
> when displaying an HTML unordered list in a JEditorPane, the bullets 
> generated by <li> looks larger than needed relative to text font size 
> as seen in
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/onv6v5xzutnvuyz/large-text-bullets.png?dl=0
>
> This is because the StyleSheet#drawShape() routine hardcodes the 
> bullet size to 8 which might look larger relative to some font size 
> and smaller compared to larger font size.
> Ideally, the bullet size should be relative to text font size.
> Proposed fix is to make sure the bullet size is relative to text font 
> size.
> I have used bullet size to be 1/3rd of text font size as
> https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp "An Unordered List" 
> bullets size comparison to text looks similar
> and I could not find any docs stating what should be the ideal bullet 
> size relative to font.

I expect it is allowed to display a bullet using a font.
The exact size would be out of control of the app.
>
> Also, the fix takes into account the bullet is shown in middle to text 
> lists, whereas previously, it is at the bottom (although we could not 
> figure it out as the bullet size was large)
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202013
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8202013/webrev.0/
>
> This also fixes JDK-8201925: JEditorPane unordered list bullets look 
> pixelated by using antialiasing to make the bullet shape smoother.

Same comment as the other fix .. you should leave the graphics state as 
you found it.

-phil.
>
> Regards
> Prasanta
>