At 10:46 AM -0700 1/18/02, Scott Raney wrote: >On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The fonts in the OS X version do not use OS X's anti-aliasing so they look >> very jagged and ugly. Is there a way to apply the system's anti-aliasing? > >There is an API for this, but unfortunately it's about 10 times slower >than the standard text drawing calls and so we can't use it (with >fields with a lot of style changes, you get to watch individual words >draw, and live scrolling is pretty much unusable). > >It's certainly possible for Apple to fix this, but for whatever reason >they haven't. You do get antialiasing with larger text fonts now, but >it's QD antialiasing and doesn't look the same as Quartz anti-aliasing >(albeit being much faster). If that's not good enough, I'm afraid >you'll just have to wait for Apple to finish OS X and the Carbon API. > Regards, > Scott
As a companion note to this, REALbasic is using the API Scott mentions (I assume -- their text is anti-aliased on OS X) and there have been howls of protest at the slowness. So they have prettier, very slow text, we have faster, not as pretty text. regards, Geoff _______________________________________________ improve-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution
