Re: Drawing antialiased text
Re: Drawing antialiased text
- Subject: Re: Drawing antialiased text
- From: Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:47:06 -0700
I suppose "antialiased" isn't the exact word I'm looking for. When you
have a square button, and put some text in it, it looks a certain way by
default; if you select the text-only icon in Interface Builder, the text
gets a soft edge and a shadow. So, for example:
[demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of pastedGraphic.tiff]
The "H" is the title of the button, while the "1" is what I have drawn.
I would like the one to be a bit smaller, and to appear soft. I've used
[NSFont labelFontOfSize:[NSFont labelFontSize]]
in setting the string to draw, but the number still appears large, as in
the picture.
Take care,
Andrew Merenbach
On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 10:37 AM, Brock Brandenberg wrote:
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Hi Andrew.
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> There's one last hurdle I need to overcome in my periodic table of the
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> elements before it's fit to release: I need to finish tweaking the
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> interface. The biggest problem is that I have drawn the atomic number
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> of an element in addition to the button's title (which is the element's
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> symbol), but it appears large and black, even though I have designated
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> label-sized text, and would like it to be antialiased like the text
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> on a
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> text-only button--otherwise it draws attention away from the atomic
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> symbol, making the chart hard to read. I received some help before
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> about drawing an additional title, but I can't seem to make it look
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> good. Any suggestions?
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>
It's hard to grasp what your current drawing problem may be since any
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Cocoa
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text drawing will be anti-aliased by default. You have to go out of
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your way
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to make it not anti-aliased.
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Send me a screen snapshot of what something looks like now, and I'll
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try and
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decipher what may be happening.
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Bye.
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>
Brock Brandenberg
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>
P.S. Don't cross post :) We do watch both lists.
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----- industrial design @ www.bergdesign.com ------
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Andrew Merenbach
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