On 14/12/2023 07:15, John Neffenger wrote:
On 12/13/23 3:29 AM, Mark Raynsford wrote:
Can you give an example of UIs scaling unevenly, or animations looking
jerky? All other non-JavaFX UI applications on my system evidently use
hinting, and I don't see anything recognizable there.
There are some text animations in JavaFX that you won't see in most
user interfaces: think text rotations, not stock tickers. It's
difficult to keep text aligned to the pixel grid when the grid is
rotating.
Animated text is extremely rare in productivity applications, so I think
this really should be an option on a Node by Node basis (there is
already the cache/cacheHint property which are animation related). A big
wall of text (like in a rich text control, TextArea or some kind of text
editor) shouldn't have to suffer in readability just in case we may want
to rotate or scale it... If Browsers had the JavaFX mentality of font
rendering, everyone would switch to the one browser that renders font
properly -- and I can imagine poorly rendered text is one the first
things people notice and can be a big reason for worse JavaFX adoption.
Also, if the animation is fast enough (ie, a quick rotate / scale /
translate transition) you won't notice any odd effects on the text
scaling. I can imagine it will look terrible though if you slow those
down (ie. a transition taking a couple of seconds -- a bit unrealistic
for a usable application though).
--John
