[PD-dev] Pd-extended-0.43 appearance

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> 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).


Looks like the screenshots didn't make it on the email.

.hc

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