[NETBEANS-2604] Support SVG icon loading from ImageUtilities

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 11.0
• Fix Version/s: 11.3
• Component/s: platform - Other
• Labels: HiDPI pull-request-available

Environment

Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

• Assignee: Eirik Bakke
• Reporter: Eirik Bakke
• Created: 27/May/19 15:59
• Updated: 03/Nov/20 15:45
• Resolved: 27/Nov/19 03:19

Description

Support SVG image loading from ImageUtilities, primarily for icons. This would be implemented as a special subclass of javax.swing.Icon, rather than through MultiResolutionImage. Eirik Bakke already has most of this code ready.

Motivation: To look good on HiDPI/Retina displays, the NetBeans IDE, and NetBeans Platform (RCP) applications, will eventually need to provide high-resolution versions of various image asset (typically icons). Two approaches are possible: (1) allow each icon to be supplied as multiple bitmap (i.e. PNG) files, one for each resolution, or (2) allow each icon to be supplied as a single SVG file. This issue deals with the latter approach. (The multiple resolution approach is discussed in NETBEANS-1583 .)

On Windows, arbitrary HiDPI scaling factors may be specified, such as 150%, 175%, 200%, or 250%. Additionally, MultiResolutionImage does not work properly on Windows due to https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212226 . Thus, I now consider the SVG approach to be the most feasible one.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: NETBEANS-2614 Improve icon scaling on HiDPI displays, and prepare ImageUtilities for HiDPI icons.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1278
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1893
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