This system property is one of the items I'm setting programmatically. 

See the static { } regions of Display2D, Display3D, and Console.



Note that it's gonna get ignored by applets no matter what.  :-(



Sean



Miles Parker wrote:

> 

> Doesn't..

> 

> -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true

> 

> still work? I've just installed Update 2 and Java 2D seems fine with 

> this vm argument. Of course its a pig without..

> 

> But it would be nice to not have to.. are you forcing programmatically 

> at runtime? If so, please share the recipe.. :)

> 

> On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Sean Luke wrote:

> 

>> Been seeing HeatBugs and Ant slow down to molasses-level speeds 

>> lately?  You're probably on MacOS X Leopard.  As part of releasing 

>> Java 1.6, Apple's been migrating from its Quartz-based Java2D graphics 

>> renderer to Sun's OpenGL-based renderer.  Problem is, Sun's renderer 

>> is much slower.  Even more of a problem: Apple has recently moved to 

>> do this by default for 1.5 as well, and on 1.5, Sun's renderer is 

>> _really_ pathetic.

>>

>> I have made a few modifications to MASON so that Java is forced to use 

>> the Quartz renderer on Macs.  Things are now back to acceptable 

>> speeds.  These modifications are on CVS along with other recent 

>> changes.  If you would like a snapshot and can't do CVS, let me know.

>>

>> Sean

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