On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:41:04 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhuk...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review a fix for jdk16. > On macOS 11 (bigsur), using the Swing Aqua Look and Feel, the text of the > selected JTabbedPane tab title text is just a light gray outline of white > text on a white background. The macOS 11 design inverted from dark background > / light text to light background / dark text, so white text on white > background is not legible. > Correct system color to use for this scenario, as per Apple, is [NSColor > controlTextColor] > so the proposed fix is to use this system color for BigSur. > For preBigSur releases, "white" is still used as the above color is for text > color but the tabPane background color is still not readable through any > Apple API, so [NSColor controlTextColor] which returns black will not be > legible on preBigSur releases which has black background. > _Mailing list message from [Alan Snyder](mailto:javali...@cbfiddle.com) on > [swing-dev](mailto:swing-dev@openjdk.java.net):_ > > What alternative are you proposing? I don?t believe there is any option that > is guaranteed not to require changing > for some future release of macOS without some new API from Apple, e.g. > ?selectedTabTextColor?. Alan, We contacted Apple and this is their recommendation since there is no way to future-proof it. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk16/pull/65
