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Re: JavaFX GUI Designer?

From "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: JavaFX GUI Designer?
Date 2012-02-26 18:43 +1100
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"Nasser M. Abbasi"  wrote in message news:jicn3p$1qn$1@speranza.aioe.org...

> I just installed netbeans 7.1 to play with JFx 2.0.
> But it is supposed to be using now a _new_ graphics engine
> called Prism

[snip]

> So if you say that font rendering is no good, then what would
> cause this?

Precisely that, i.e. the problem *is* the new graphics engine.  It's 
hardware accelerated and it is well known that achieving high quality font 
rendering with hardware acceleration is not simple.  Microsoft have achieved 
reasonably good results with their DirectWrite technology but, other than 
that, hardware accelerated graphics toolkits struggle to render fonts in an 
acceptably aesthetic manner.

I believe this has been flagged as a bug or enhancement request for JavaFX 
but I won't be holding my breath for it to be resolved any time soon simply 
because there is no easy fix.  I don't believe JavaFX will have much market 
penetration or acceptance unless they can resolve it though as apps/applets 
simply don't stack up to those built using CPU-based toolkits visually 
speaking.

--
And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
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JavaFX GUI Designer? Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2012-02-25 13:12 -0800
  Re: JavaFX GUI Designer? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-25 17:49 -0500
    Re: JavaFX GUI Designer? Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2012-02-25 19:21 -0800
      Re: JavaFX GUI Designer? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-02-26 14:46 +1100
        Re: JavaFX GUI Designer? "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2012-02-26 01:31 -0600
          Re: JavaFX GUI Designer? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-02-26 18:43 +1100
        Re: JavaFX GUI Designer? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 09:47 -0500

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