Thanks for the explanation. I don't know what to say. You go to great length explaining why circles aren't round and why the corner radius on rounded rectangles are different on the different sides, and why you will not fix it. I guess other platforms (Flash, .NET and similar) also have these problems since they aren't fixable?
It turns out that it is too hard to do Java2D graphics in a high fidelity way, at least without resorting to hacks. Another problem I have is that one can not in Java2D in a generic way outline and fill a Shape and make it look good. The outline will plot outside and inside the shape depending on the direction of the vector (in degrees). This is since you don't provide an INSIDE and OUTSIDE stroke. You have the hanging right/left stroke and the pure stroke. The pure stroke isn't usable since you either get the lines sharing two pixels for vertical and horizontal lines or you do as you suggest and translate 0.5, in which case you get good lines but shapes that are one pixel too big. One CAN solve the one-pixel-too-big-shapes-when-using-PURE-and-translate.5-problem by scaling the output with ((width - 1.0)/width) but that only works for rectangles (shapes with equal but mirrored quadrants actually, so also for circles) but fails for general paths, polygons and composite shapes of all kinds. This problem has shown to unsolvable in a generic way. Only if one has prior knowledge about what type of shape to paint and are in full control of the rendering hints can one get good results for some types of shapes. You can not create an API that takes a Shape, a fill and stroke color and do a decent job painting those at some coordinates. If you (as in Sun) are sincere in your efforts to take on Flash and Silverlight these kinds of rendering issues must be solved IMO. Given your stance as explained above I guess they won't be until it's too late though. :( Cheers, Mikael [Message sent by forum member 'mikaelgrev' (mikaelgrev)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=224787 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
