OK. As Edvin mentioned, Pivot uses the AA hints provided by the platform by default. Is it possible that Ubuntu/GNOME recently changed these defaults and the JDK has not been updated yet?
On Jul 25, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Pierre Jansen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry if this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but what platform are you > using? > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 (GNOME) with the Sun JRE (1.6.0_22) / 32 bit. > > On Jul 25, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Pierre Jansen wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:38 PM, SYSE | Edvin <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think your text is actually antialiased already, >> >> Thanks for looking into this. I'm not sure that this is the case though. As >> a crude workaround, I sub-classed Label and overrode paint(Graphics2d), >> allowing me to manually add the RenderingHints. I tried both >> VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_LCD_ON and VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_LCD_HRGB. Both returned >> different results to the default (VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_LCD_HRGB seemed to be >> the best). >> >> but I found that you can override what kind of hint is used by adding this >> code somewhere in your app before the rendering takes part, for example in >> the Application#startup() method: >> >> Field aaHintValueField = >> FontRenderContext.class.getDeclaredField("aaHintValue"); >> aaHintValueField.setAccessible(true); >> aaHintValueField.set(Platform.getFontRenderContext(), >> RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_GASP); >> >> Thanks, I'll give this a go - looks to be a far cleaner option than my >> current workaround. >> > >
