On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:57:01 GMT, Florian Kirmaier <fkirma...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> In some situations, a part of the SG is no longer rendered.
>> I created a test program that showcases this problem.
>> 
>> Explanation:
>> 
>> This can happen, when a part of the SG, is covered by another Node.
>> In this part, one node is totally covered, and the other node is visible.
>> 
>> When the totally covered Node is changed, then it is marked dirty and it's 
>> parent, recursively until an already dirty node is found.
>> Due to the Culling, this totally covered Node is not rendered - with the 
>> effect that the tree is never marked as Clean.
>> 
>> In this state, a Node is Dirty but not It's parent. Based on my CodeReview, 
>> this is an invalid state which should never happen.
>> 
>> In this invalid state, when the other Node is changed, which is visible, 
>> then the dirty state is no longer propagated upwards - because the recursive 
>> "NGNode.markTreeDirty" algorithm encounters a dirty node early.
>> 
>> This has the effect, that any SG changes in the visible Node are no longer 
>> rendered. Sometimes the situation repairs itself.
>> 
>> Useful parameters for further investigations:
>> -Djavafx.pulseLogger=true
>> -Dprism.printrendergraph=true
>> -Djavafx.pulseLogger.threshold=0
>> 
>> PR:
>> This PR ensures the dirty flag is set to false of the tree when the culling 
>> is used.
>> It doesn't seem to break any existing tests - but I'm not sure whether this 
>> is the right way to fix it.
>> It would be great to have some feedback on this solution - maybe guiding me 
>> to a better solution.
>> 
>> I could write a test, that just does the same thing as the test application, 
>> but checks every frame that these nodes are not dirty - but maybe there is a 
>> better way to test this.
>
> Florian Kirmaier has refreshed the contents of this pull request, and 
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>   JDK-8322619 Fix for rendering bug, related to overlap - culling - dirtynodes

It is worth noting that the idea of cleaning the dirty tree, for the culled 
node, is also done at line `NGNode:1414`, but for some reason, it doesn't catch 
the case from this bug.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1310#issuecomment-1867654647

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