<Swing Dev> RFR: 8182043: Access to Windows Large Icons

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:29:08 GMT, Victor Dyakov <vdyakov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @mrserb  Can you review this?
>
> @aivanov-jdk Can you review this?

I still suggest to try the approach recommended here:
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2020-August/016074.html

On 29.05.2020 14:35, Alexey Ivanov wrote:
> The ultimate goal of this API could be to provide an MRI which stores all the available icon sizes and loads
> dynamically the size that's most appropriate to the current display settings. Raymond Chen has a blog post about the
> format of the icon resources [1]. If we do that, we will handle all the scaling ourselves and will be able to define
> our own algorithm for choosing the closest match. As explained in LookupIconIdFromDirectoryEx [2], LoadIcon and
> LoadImage “use this function to search the specified resource data for the icon… that best fits the current display
> device.”> [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120720-00/?p=7083 [2]
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-lookupiconidfromdirectoryex

If an approach above works then we could request the icon of the exact existed size, and if that size is unknown we
could request some predefined size like 16,24. etc

Some additional comment was sent here:
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2020-August/016081.html

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/380