On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:25:50 GMT, Dmitry Batrak <dbat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This is the implementation used by JetBrains Runtime for the last 4 years, > after some cleanup, and with one problem, > found while preparing the pull request, fixed. > Even though typical scenarios for a UI application should be covered, it's > not a complete solution. In particular, emoji-s > still won't be rendered for large font sizes (more than 100pt), and for > non-trivial composite/painting modes. > Notable implementation details are listed below. > > **Glyph image generation** > > Deprecated CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint function, used by JDK on macOS to > render text, cannot render emojis, > CTFontDrawGlyphs is used instead. It ignores the scale component of text > transformation matrix, so a 'real-sized' > CTFont object should be passed to it. The same sizing procedure is done when > calculating glyph metrics, because they > are not scaled proportionally with font size (as they do for vector fonts). > > **Glyph image storage** > > Existing GlyphInfo structure is used to store color glyph image. Color glyph > can be distinguished by having 4 bytes > of storage per pixel. Color components are stored in pre-multiplied alpha > format. > > **Glyph rendering** > > Previously, GlyphList instance always contained glyphs in the same format > (solid, grayscale or LCD), determined by the > effective rendering hint. Now the renderers must be prepared to GlyphList > having 'normal' glyphs interspersed with > color glyphs (they can appear due to font fallback). This isn't a problem for > OpenGL renderer (used for on-screen painting), > but GlyphListLoopPipe-based renderers (used for off-screen painting) needed > an adjustment to be able to operate on > specific segments of GlyphList. > As an incidental optimization, calculation of GlyphList bounds ('getBounds' > method) is performed now only when needed > (most text renderers don't need this information). > Speaking of the actual rendering of the glyph image, it's done by the > straightforward glDrawPixels call in OpenGL renderer, > and by re-using existing Blit primitive in off-screen renderers. > > **Testing** > > There's no good way to test the new functionality automatically, but I've > added a test verifying that 'something' is > rendered for the emoji character, when painting to BufferedImage. > > Existing tests pass after the change. src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/java2d/loops/DrawGlyphListColor.java line 71: > 69: static { > 70: GraphicsPrimitiveMgr.registerGeneral( > 71: new DrawGlyphListColor(null, null, null)); If it is a complete "General" loop which supports all possible combination of incoming src/comp/dst/transform/etc I suggest to confirm that in the test. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3007