Name: diC59631 Date: 10/01/98


I am give the user a preferences dialog to allow
changing their default rendering hints and I keep
these in a preferences/properties file.

When I read these properties back in again, I can't
pass them to SetRenderingHint because I get an
IllegalArgumentException thrown.

I fired up javap and worked out that sun.awt.Graphics2D
(I think that's right) checks for equality
of rendering hints using == instead of .equals().
I have to put code in my app like:

     if (hint.equals(RenderingHint.ANTIALIASING))
         hint = RenderingHint.ANTIALIASING;

after reading in my preferences file. This is tedious,
(there are dozens of strings to worry about) but works.

My request is for Java2D to use .equals() rather than ==
when comparing rendering hints. I don't believe this
would affect performance; it shouldn't break anything
and would allow serialization of rendering hints.
(Review ID: 39748)
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