Re: subpixel rendering vs. layer backed views

2009-02-07 Thread Brandon Walkin
There are a couple tricks you can use to retain subpixel antialiasing. If you're giving the view a layer so you can animate it occasionally, try giving it a layer just before you tell it to animate and removing the layer once the animation is complete. For quick alpha or origin changes, the

Re: subpixel rendering vs. layer backed views

2009-02-07 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:36 PM, m wrote: > Is it the case that I can have a layer backed view (and thus nice > animations), or I can have labels and checkboxes whose text is nicely > subpixel anti-aliased, but not both? This is correct. You can't do subpixel antialiasing if you're compositing t

subpixel rendering vs. layer backed views

2009-02-07 Thread m
Is it the case that I can have a layer backed view (and thus nice animations), or I can have labels and checkboxes whose text is nicely subpixel anti-aliased, but not both? I feel like I'm missing something but when I put a check box in a layer backed view, it looks terrible. It's poorly an