[PD-dev] Pd-extended-0.43 appearance

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 22:24 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:33 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > > I also noticed that Pd-extended-0.43 on OS X does not use anti-aliased
> > > fonts, although it is (I think) using Tcl/Tk 8.5, while Pd- 
> > > vanilla-0.43
> > > does use anti-aliased fonts.
> > >
> > > On Ubuntu both, Pd-extended and Pd-vanilla 0.43, do use anti-aliased
> > > fonts.
> > 
> > 
> > That's an odd bug I've never seen.  Pd-extended on Mac OS X has had  
> > anti-aliased fonts for a long time (0.40?) and it does on every Mac  
> > I've seen it on.  Can you post a screenshot?
> 
> Probably it's a very recent regression bug. The oldest autobuild of
> Pd-extended-0.43 I tested was probably a week old. Actually, on all
> (probably 5 different?) OS X machines I tested the new builds on the
> fonts were aliased. But it could well be, that all the machines were
> 10.6.X (don't know if that matters).
> 
> Attached two screenshots taken from the same machine, one from
> Pd-extended0-42.5 and one from Pd-extended-0.43.1
> 

I also should add that only the objects, messages, number and symbol
boxes are aliased. All the iemguis have anti-aliased fonts. (I noticed
only now, otherwise I'd have included some in the screenshots).


Roman