NSBrowser smudged quotes and inter-row dots
NSBrowser smudged quotes and inter-row dots
- Subject: NSBrowser smudged quotes and inter-row dots
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:39:55 -0400
In my NSBrowser view, I experience visual glitches in columns that contain
quoted phrases. There are two categories of visual glitches, smudged
quotation marks and inter-line dots. They are clearly related. The smudged
quotation marks also appear in my table views.
1. The opening quotation mark, or sometimes the closing quotation mark, is
blurred, while the other quotation mark is perfectly clear and sharp. I'm
also seeing blurred quotation marks in my table views, where sometimes both
of them are blurred. Some of the blurred quotation marks are less blurred
than others. They appear only in some rows, seemingly at random.
2. There are dashes and dots on a single-pixel line between two rows of text
in a column, but only when the line above contains one or more blurred
quotation marks. These are always on the line of pixels that separates two
rows of text; that is, the line of pixels that is never highlighted when I
select the row above or the row below. The dashes and dots disappear if I
expand the column width just to the point where the closing quotation mark
appears. They reappear when I drag it to a narrower width, just enough to
make the closing quotation mark disappear. The dashes and dots never appear
in a table view.
I see these effects both on a flat panel display and a CRT. Testers see them
on their monitors, too.
I am using the new-in-Panther NSBrowser settings to allow continuous column
width changes independently for each column. I am using the small system
font. My browser and table views are set to use small controls (scrollbars,
etc.).
To be fair, my browser access private NSBrowser instance variables in order
to set the horizontal scroll bar, column scrollers and title font to small.
However, my tables use the standard IB setting to make its scrollers small,
and I see the blurred quotation marks in tables. Besides, NSBrowser sorely
needs to be updated to support small controls, as most of the other controls
now do.
Do others see this? Is there a way to avoid this issue?
Reported to Apple as Bug ID# 3703572.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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