When inactive, I use 0 0 0 192. As far as I can tell, this does not correspond to a named color. It would be wrong to assume that Apple only uses named colors in their UIs. The named colors are for application developers, not for Apple itself.
Alan > On Nov 19, 2020, at 4:05 PM, Alan Snyder <javali...@cbfiddle.com> wrote: > > VAqua uses controlTextColor which has the value 255 255 255 217. > > If you are seeing opaque white, then the alpha channel is getting lost > somewhere. > > Alan > > >> On Nov 19, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.java.net >> <mailto:s...@openjdk.java.net>> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:51:55 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhuk...@openjdk.org >> <mailto:psadhuk...@openjdk.org>> wrote: >> >>>> I have tried to test this change on macOS 10.15 and found some differences >>>> from the old behavior. >>>> Before the fix: >>>> - The color was white for the selected tab while the window was focused, >>>> the same as in the native app(I have tested the tabs in the System >>>> preferences->Displays). So it worked fine. >>>> - The color was white for the selected tab while the window was >>>> unfocused(some other app is in focus). This is different from the native >>>> app, which uses black color. So this is a bug. >>>> >>>> After the fix: >>>> - The color is "blurred white" or even "light blue" for the selected tab >>>> while the window is focused. >>>> - The color is "light blue" for the selected tab while the window is >>>> unfocused. >>>> >>>> I think the new color used in the fix can be configured in the System >>>> Preferences -> General -> Highlight Color. If I select the green color >>>> then the tabs start to use green as a font color, which looks incorrect. >>> >>> In Mohave, native System Preferences->Display tabs has >>> white-text-on-blue-background when windows is focused >>> black-text-on-lightgray-background when window is unfocused >>> >>> In macos11, it is always black-text-on-white-background whether >>> focused/unfocused. >>> >>> Current JDK tabpane always shows black background (when tab is selected) >>> which is not configurable, at least I could not change it. Only thing i >>> could change is the foreground text color. >>> As was told to get color from native, I could see only >>> "selectedTextBackground" and "selectedControlColor" works on both >>> pre-macos11 and macos11 as it gives bluish text color which is legible on >>> black (mohave) and white (macos11) background. >>> >>> All other native-obtained-colors like selectedTextColor, >>> selectedControlTextColor, controlTextColor, textBackgroundColor either >>> gives black or white which is not legible on either pre-macos11 or macos11, >>> so was not used. >> >> Then try to dig into it a little bit, probably a good reason to ask about >> the current font color in the tab at the Apple forum. >> >> ------------- >> >> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1182 >> <https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1182>