[PIVOT-393] Certain UI components do not properly respect system text anti-aliasing hints

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Assignee: Gregory K. Brown
• Reporter: Gregory K. Brown
• Created: 26/Jan/10 13:47
• Updated: 27/May/10 21:56
• Resolved: 15/Apr/10 16:03

Description

Some components render text using the drawString() method of Graphics2D and properly set the text rendering hints using the getTextAntialiasingHint() method in the Platform class. However, other components use a glyph vector that does not currently respect the text rendering hints. These components should be updated to use a FontRenderContext containing the correct text rendering hints:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/font/FontRenderContext.html#FontRenderContext(java.awt.geom.AffineTransform,%20java.lang.Object,%20java.lang.Object)

Also, there is a minor issue with the use of getTextAntialiasingHint(): the AWT "awt.font.desktophints" property may contain multiple hints (e.g. on my desktop it also defines KEY_TEXT_LCD_CONTRAST) and Pivot is only looking at KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING. Additional methods should be added to support the other values.

Issue Links

• relates to: PIVOT-503 Using ClearType, bold text in Pivot 1.5 looks very bad