<Swing Dev> RFR: 8251377: [macos11] JTabbedPane selected tab text is barely legible

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:32:59 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> Since the apple forum post is still unanswered and if we want it to be fixed for JDK16, I dont see any other alternative than to fix by what I did in the 1st iteration of this by hardcoding. I dont think we are going to enable dark mode in JDk16 so we will have time to think on that when we enable that and hopefully Apple will come back by that time and we can revisit this.
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>> Can you try some small sample code and create the tabpane using Cocoa then set some state to the pane(like selected) and request its font?
>
> Where exactly is this forum post ?
> The current version of the fix isn't obviously hard-coding it. The source looks to be
> NSColor selectedControlColor
> 
> how is that hard-coded ?
> 
>  Why isn't that sensitive to dark vs light theme ?

The forumpost is here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252067605
The hardcoded being referred was in this 1st iteration of the fix
https://openjdk.github.io/cr/?repo=jdk&pr=1182&range=00

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1182