Re: Activating anti-aliasing in Swing

On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:13:54 -0500, jonck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
(in article <1117116834.478405.10450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>> java -Dswing.aatext=true Main
>
> Thank you for your suggestion. The JVM is accepting -Dswing.aatext=true
> as a valid option, however, it does not appear to do anything, all my
> Swing components still render the same. Also, from what Bill said, it
> seems like it's not something to use in production code.
>
<snip>
>
> Is this really the only way to get anti-aliasing in Swing at the moment
> (using 1.4.2), or is there a more elegant way that someone knows of?
>
> Thanks, Jonck
>

If you are using 1.4.2, that is the reason the "aatext" hack doesn't work
for you. This is a 1.5 feature.

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Bill Tschumy
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