How can I inherit the system's anti-alias setting for painting text to off-screen images like swing does?

Question

When I run my swing GUI applications under Java 6, they automatically use my configured sub-pixel anti-alias settings for all fonts. The result is much improved over standard A

Answer 1

Using Swing, I'm able to get the right text anti-aliasing hint like this:

JLabel label = new JLabel();
FontMetrics fm  = label.getFontMetrics( label.getFont() );
Object aaHintValue = fm.getFontRenderContext().getAntiAliasingHint();

On my system this returns RenderingHits.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_LCD_HRGB.