On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 16:07:53 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:

> **Problem description**
> 
> If you grab the thumb of the scroll bar of `ScrollPane` and drag it slowly 
> and continuously up and down, you'll notice the UI stops rendering correctly: 
> the child component of the scroll pane will render on the left of the frame 
> itself, the inside of the scroll pane will be filled with the background 
> color of its child component.
> 
> **Root cause**
> 
> AWT calls the 
> [`::SetScrollInfo`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setscrollinfo)
>  function on EDT when AWT processes scroll bar tracking events. This Windows 
> API is not thread-safe, calling this function on an incorrect thread leads to 
> leaking GDI objects.
> 
> When the process reaches the limit on the number of GDI objects, it cannot 
> create new GDI objects, which results in rendering issues.
> 
> **Fix**
> 
> To resolve the problem, I modified the code so that `::SetScrollInfo` and 
> [`::GetScrollInfo`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-getscrollinfo)
>  are always called on the toolkit thread, all AWT components are created on 
> the toolkit thread.
> 
> An automatic test is provided. The test scrolls the vertical scroll bar up 
> and down. Then the test takes a screenshot. When the bug is reproduced, the 
> robot cannot create new GDI objects to capture the screenshot and it throws 
> `OutOfMemoryError`.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ea419073
Author:    Alexey Ivanov <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/ea41907396a70933c4f6e6b0f247f7ba589a3a23
Stats:     193 lines in 2 files changed: 189 ins; 0 del; 4 mod

8297923: java.awt.ScrollPane broken after multiple scroll up/down

Reviewed-by: honkar, prr, serb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14338

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