Why does javafx control my translucent cursors?

Question

The following are two PNG images:

Visually, they are absolutely identical - the only difference is that some pixels have a translucent background (you can download images to check this).

But when I use these images as the image cursor on JavaFX nodes, I get the following result:

The first cursor (without partially transparent pixels) is still crisp, but the second is distorted.

After working with the problem for a while, I found an algorithm that takes this difference into account - the mixing mode:

• "Expected" mode (which you can see in the browser, for example) - is to take the sum of the values in the channel weighted by the alpha values: (1 - alpha) * background_color + alpha * foreground_color.

• " JavaFX" : (1 - alpha) * background_color + alpha^2 * foreground_color ( ).

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import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.ImageCursor;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;

public class HelloWorld extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        System.out.println(ImageCursor.getBestSize(32, 32));

        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");

        StackPane root = new StackPane();
        root.setCursor(new ImageCursor(new Image("/test-cursor.png"), 0, 0));

        primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 100, 100));
        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

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Answer 1

( JDK 8 Linux & Windows). , , , . ( Scala, Java):

  import com.sun.prism.PixelFormat
  import javafx.scene.ImageCursor
  import javafx.scene.image.{Image, WritableImage}

  private def undoPremultipliedAlpha(image: Image): Image = {
    // Fixes JavaFX bug with semi-transparent cursors -
    // somewhere deep in JavaFX code they premultiply alpha
    // on already premultiplied image, which screws up transparencies.
    // This method attempts to counteract it by removing premultiplied alpha
    // directly from bytes of internal JavaFX image.

    def getPlatformImage(image: Image) = image.impl_getPlatformImage()

    val platformImage = getPlatformImage(image)

    val pixelFormat = platformImage.getClass.getDeclaredMethod("getPixelFormat").invoke(platformImage).asInstanceOf[PixelFormat]
    if (pixelFormat != PixelFormat.BYTE_BGRA_PRE) {
      println(s"wrong platform image pixel format (${pixelFormat}), unable to apply cursor transparency bug workaround")
    } else {
      val pixelBufferField = platformImage.getClass.getDeclaredField("pixelBuffer")
      pixelBufferField.setAccessible(true)
      val pixelBuffer = pixelBufferField.get(platformImage).asInstanceOf[java.nio.Buffer]
      val pixelArray = pixelBuffer.array().asInstanceOf[Array[Byte]]
      for (i <- 0 until pixelArray.length / 4) {

        val alpha = (pixelArray(i * 4 + 3).toInt & 0xff) / 255.0
        if (alpha != 0) {
          pixelArray(i * 4) = math.min(255, math.max(0, ((pixelArray(i * 4).toInt & 0xff).toDouble / alpha))).toInt.toByte
          pixelArray(i * 4 + 1) = math.min(255, math.max(0, ((pixelArray(i * 4 + 1).toInt & 0xff).toDouble / alpha))).toInt.toByte
          pixelArray(i * 4 + 2) = math.min(255, math.max(0, ((pixelArray(i * 4 + 2).toInt & 0xff).toDouble / alpha))).toInt.toByte
        }
      }
    }

    image
  }

  def createImageCursor(resource: String, hotspotX: Int, hotspotY: Int): ImageCursor = {
    new ImageCursor(
      undoPremultipliedAlpha(
        new Image(resource)),
      hotspotX,
      hotspotY
    )
  }