On 10.5.2, it appears that NSShadow has changed so that the shadow
draws at the offset sent to -setShadowOffset:.
In places where I was using NSShadow in the user interface for
subtle visual effects, the shadow is now drawn at a different offset
than on 10.4.x (and 10.5.0-1). In some cases this makes the visual
effect look bad, because I had tuned the offset so that it looked
good, not because of any particular fondness for the actual values.
While I can't do anything about the binaries already shipped, I'd
like to fix my current source base. I still need to support (and
look good) on Tiger.
Can someone share what the mapping between input offset and rendered
shadow location was previous to 10.5.2?
That's definitely annoying. I make heavy use of NSShadow throughout
my custom UI (which renders text anywhere from 11 pt all the way up to
48 point). My IB plug-ins allow me to set all attributes of the
shadow, so I'll play around with it on my 10.5.2 system and also with
10.4.x (I have IB palettes for that OS). I'll then use Photoshop to
compare.
Hopefully this is deemed a bug. It's almost like the blur value is
off somehow though; the offsets seem OK to me at first glance.
