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

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:24:00 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> On macOS 11 (bigsur) beta, using the Swing Aqua Look and Feel, the text of the selected JTabbedPane tab title text is just a light gray outline of white text on a white background. The macOS 11 design inverted from dark background / light text to light background / dark text, 
>> Proposed fix is to use dark color in light background so I used lightGray instead of "white" which is being used now, if we are on BigSur.
>
> src/java.desktop/macosx/classes/com/apple/laf/AquaLookAndFeel.java line 332:
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>> 330:         final ColorUIResource selectedTabTitleNormalColor =
>> 331:                         System.getProperty("os.version").contains("10.16") ?
>> 332:                                     new ColorUIResource(Color.lightGray) : white;
> 
> Can we read this information from the native? Probably it is already accessed by the SystemColor?

What "information" you want to be read from native?

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