What is the correct scale to use with createComponentSnapshot() for creating an image for startDragging?

If I use getApproximateScaleFactorForComponent then my drag image shrinks a bit and is smaller the source component.

If I use getGlobalScaleFactor() then the drag image is blurry. If I use 1 than the drag image is blurry.

The text on the left is normal, the text on the right is being dragged. Why is it far blurrier?

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Because it doesn’t take the DPI scaling into account, so the bitmap is actually smaller than the physical resolution.

Creating a higher-res image doesn’t help, as the DragAndDrop classes in JUCE have no concept of DPI, so a larger bitmap is a larger object that gets dragged around.

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Draggable TableListBox rows also suffer this annoying “feature”. I hacked JUCE once to overcome it, but my solution was too much of a hack and far too many changes to consider maintaining it going forward.

Running into this issue too now, any workarounds?