Daniel Dekany wrote: >> >>Now, you are speaking of *subpixel* anti-aliasing. Therefore please tell >>us if the problem you report is about: >>[1] Lack of Anti-aliasing in parts of XXE. >>[2] OR you get Anti-aliasing in XXE, but not the kind of Anti-aliasing >>you would like to get. > > It's closer to [2]. For the menus and for some of the controls it > always uses subpixel AA, i.e. independently of Options|Options, > General section, "Text Anti-aliasing". However, the document view > (where you see the XML document formatted with CSS, also the tree view > of the XML document) is anti-aliased exactly like under 1.5, i.e. > depending on Options|Options, General section, "Text Anti-aliasing", > it is either no AA, or *pixel* AA. I guess it is the question of using > java.awt.RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_LCD_xxx (see: > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/2d/flags.html#aaFonts) > instead of java.awt.RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON somewhere.
Right. We'll see how we can improve this. > (Note that the subpixel AA of Sun J2SE 1.6 doesn't use the font > renderer of the host OS. It's in the case of Windows XP regrettable > (or with positive attitude, it's matter of taste which is the better), > also will be on any system where you fine-tune the subpixel rendering > settings of the OS. Anyway, the user experience probably would be > better if XXE uses SWT. Would be huge reworking, I know...) We are pretty happy with Swing and do not intend to rewrite XXE using SWT: * I didn't see that much improvements in terms of speed when I use SWT apps. * SWT apps don't look that ``native'' (e.g. from the shape of the Tabs in a TabbedPane you can tell that the application is written in SWT). * Moreover, the L&F of native apps under Windows is not consistent (to be positive ;-) , is evolving at a very fast pace) and heavily depends on the ``native Windows GUI toolkit'' you are using. (By the way, have you tried Office 2007 Beta 2? Weird? Gorgeous? Both?) * Being fond of a L&F is really a matter of *personal* taste. For example, I much prefer the Swing/Ocean Metal L&F on my Linux box than SWT/GTK. OTOH, I find the Swing/Windows Classic/XP L&F pretty ugly and SWT/Windows apps pretty good looking.
