Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-10 Thread Felipe Heidrich
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:

Re: Building and using a debug build of openjfx as the default JavaFX for development

2014-03-10 Thread Stephen F Northover
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

AW: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-10 Thread Robert Fisher
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%.

Re: Poor font rendering..

2014-03-10 Thread Felipe Heidrich
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

hg: openjfx/8u-dev/rt: 11 new changesets

2014-03-10 Thread hang . vo
Changeset: 81208afdb29a Author:hudson Date: 2014-03-05 08:00 -0800 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8u-dev/rt/rev/81208afdb29a Added tag 8u20-b04 for changeset 4742b5a6eb9b ! .hgtags Changeset: 39856b5ce3f7 Author:kcr Date: 2014-03-07 13:16 -0800 URL:

Re: Build Errors on Windows 8.1 / VS2012 Pro / JDK 1.8.0-b132 [was: Build Errors on Windows 8.1 / VS2010 Pro / JDK 1.8.0-b132]

2014-03-10 Thread Artem Ananiev
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