<Swing Dev> RFR: 8271315: Redo: Nimbus JTree renderer properties persist across L&F changes

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:13:39 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is another attempt of fixing JDK-8249674 which created a regression JDK-8266510 for which it was backed out.
> This fix reinstates the UIResource properties  for "Tree.leafIcon", "Tree.closedIcon",  "Tree.openIcon", "Tree.selectionForeground",
>  "Tree.textForeground", "Tree.selectionBackground", "Tree.textBackground", "Tree.selectionBorderColor" for NimbusLookAndFeel.
> 
> The regression which was "when a JTree node is selected, the text should be painted using the selected text color (white), matching the color of the expansion control. Instead, it is painted using the standard color (black)"  is also fixed by this fix, although I could not find any mention of this behaviour in the spec that selected text color should match the expanded icon color
> but it's a long standing behaviour, so catered to it.
> It was happening because SynthLabelUI#paint when it tries to paint textForeground for cell label, it calls
> 
> g.setColor(context.getStyle().getColor(context,
>                     ColorType.TEXT_FOREGROUND));
> 
> 
> which then calls SynthStyle#getColor where even though cell renderer correctly gets the foreground color, it gets overridden by getColorForState()  because the color is a UIResource and there's no corresponding color defined for that state for Tree.CellRenderer so it uses default "black" color for "text" as defined in skin.laf
> 
> else if (type == ColorType.TEXT_FOREGROUND) {
>                 color = c.getForeground();
>             }
>         }
> 
>         if (color == null || color instanceof UIResource) {
>             // Then use what we've locally defined
>             color = getColorForState(context, type);
>         }
> 
> 
> Proposed fix is to check if current foregroundColor for DefaultTreeCellRenderer is UIResouce, then use that color itself.

I tried creating automated test for that but not able to..I can create manual test but sInce it is easily seen in SwingSet2 JTree demo, we can verify that using SwingSet2..

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5178