[PD-dev] tk 8.5 on Mac OSX & retina screens

[Dan Wilcox]

Here's a link to a build with retina support: http://docs.danomatika.com/Pd-0.46-0-64bit-retina.app.zip

Also, it wouldn't be hard to update the app bundle build script to use the Wish.app from the latest detected Tk version so the .tgz wouldn't be needed ...

On Sep 30, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was able to get 0.46-0 working with retina resolution on OSX. It's pretty easy.
> 
> * replace Contents/MacOS/Pd with Tk 8.5 Wish.app binary:  /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/Resources/Wish.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish
> 
> * add the following to Contents/Info.plist:
> 
> <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
> <true/>
> 
> * change package require Tcl version to 8.5 in Contents/Resources/tcl/pd-gui.tcl
> 
> Looking at the app bundle build script, it would only involve updating the wish-shell.tgz with the new Wish.app and renaming all instances of  "Wish Shell" to "Wish" as I found "Wish Shell.app" is now a static link to "Wish.app".
> 
> The only problem I noticed is that the font at size 10 or less is so thin that it becomes illegible. I think simply bolding it on retina screens would work.
> 
> I wasn't able to find a way in tk to get the screen dpi, so maybe using the max screen size would work:
> 
> wm maxsize
> 
> If the width and height are greater than, say 2000 & 1500 then bold the small fonts? It's kind of dumb but might work.
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danomatika.com
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