Thank you Rob,
It would be interesting to test against a DirectWrite app. I’m not sure if you
have VS, but if you do it should be simple to modify the Simple Text tab in
the DirectWrite Hello World Sample to use the same font and text:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd
Thanks John. See also:
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Using+an+IDE
There are several tricky issues around building, running and debugging
OpenJFX from within an IDE. The most important thing is to run the code
in the IDE rather than jfxrt.jar and the shared libraries that come
Hi Felipe,
I've added the results from the DirectWrite 'Hello World' sample to the image:
http://i.imgur.com/CGyckge.png
Is this supposed to be the benchmark for how black text should look? In my
opinion the text in Chrome / Firefox / Eclipse is a lot clearer and sharper
when viewed at 100%.
Thank you Rob,
DirectWrite is the engine JavaFX uses to produces glyph masks (white on black),
therefore JavaFX text should resemble that of DirectWrite (it is not exactly
the same, as JavaFX does its own color blending and gamma correction).
We decided to use DirectWrite for JavaFX because it
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On 3/8/2014 1:04 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
Hi Kay,
It looks like you are using VS2012 not 2010. We build JavaFX with VS
2010, and have some issues with 2012. However, we will need to resolve
them at some point.
Maybe someone else on the list has had luck building with VS 2012?
I was able to