On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:08:57 GMT, Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Please review a fix for jdk16. >> On macOS 11 (bigsur), using the Swing Aqua Look and Feel, the text of the >> selected JTabbedPane tab title text is just a light gray outline of white >> text on a white background. The macOS 11 design inverted from dark >> background / light text to light background / dark text, so white text on >> white background is not legible. >> Correct system color to use for this scenario, as per Apple, is [NSColor >> controlTextColor] >> so the proposed fix is to use this system color for BigSur. >> For preBigSur releases, "white" is still used as the above color is for text >> color but the tabPane background color is still not readable through any >> Apple API, so [NSColor controlTextColor] which returns black will not be >> legible on preBigSur releases which has black background. > >> _Mailing list message from [Alan Snyder](mailto:javali...@cbfiddle.com) on >> [swing-dev](mailto:swing-dev@openjdk.java.net):_ >> >> What alternative are you proposing? I don?t believe there is any option that >> is guaranteed not to require changing >> for some future release of macOS without some new API from Apple, e.g. >> ?selectedTabTextColor?. > > Alan, > We contacted Apple and this is their recommendation since there is no way to > future-proof it. Headful jtreg and jck tests have passed. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk16/pull/65
