The issue was not related to WebView loading and rendering the SVG properly, it
did. The issue is that it is currently impossible to make a WebView with a
transparent background unless you use reflection and hack it. E.g.:
Field f = engine.getClass().getDeclaredField(“page”);
f.setAccessible(true);
com.sun.webkit.WebPage page = (com.sun.webkit.WebPage) f.get(engine);
page.setBackgroundColor(0);
There is already a JIRA issue for this: JDK-8090547
That severely limits the ability to show SVG images in the UI. Given the
prevalence of high DPI displays and the need to render images at various sizes,
I think it would be great to have SVG image support in an ImageView instead of
hacking it via a WebView (even if under the hood the WebEngine does the
rendering).
Scott
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Guru Hb <guru...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> WebView renders SVG ( WebView.getWebEngine().load("PathToSvg.svg"); ).
> Could you please let us know which content (SVG) failed to rendered as
> expected. Please file a JBS with simplified test content , will analyze.
>
> Thanks,
> Guru
>
> On 11/10/16 6:56 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
>>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> JavaFX supports SVG paths both directly and via CSS, but there is no
>>> general support for SVG.
>>
>> Perhaps there should be? Is there an enhancement request in JIRA?
>>
>> I just Worte a program that tried to get around this using WebView to render
>> the SVG. It is more awkward than it should be, and due to an existing issue
>> I had to use a workaround to get the background to be transparent that will
>> surely break with Java 9.
>>
>> Scott
>
