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Re: Large progress indicators in Leopard
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Re: Large progress indicators in Leopard


  • Subject: Re: Large progress indicators in Leopard
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:00:05 +0100

Thanks, I'll file an enhancement request. In the meantime, I guess
I'll have to design my own progress indicator {sigh}.

On Nov 23, 2007 10:41 PM, Ricky Sharp <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 23, 2007, at 3:11 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>
> > I tried downscaling but it didn't help. It seems the max size of the
> > progress indicator is some 30x30 px. If the actual rect is larger,
> > it's drawn in white. Yet NSProgressIndicator is a subclass of NSView
> > so I figure I should be able to make it any size I want. Could this be
> > a bug?
>
> Perhaps not really a bug, but now a limitation.  Definitely file an
> enhancement request.  As John pointing out, the control could have
> been already modified to support Hi-DPI (aka resolution
> independence).  My guess is that Apple is using bitmapped images and
> are just providing multi-res flavors (72 dpi and 288 dpi).
>
> But, IMO, that's bad!  If I were implementing the control, I would
> allow any size and would either vector-based images (e.g. PDF) or
> drawing primitives for the content.
>
> Note that you'll see the same issues for most other controls as well.
> While they do support res-ind, their sizes are pretty much fixed point-
> wise.
>
> ___________________________________________________________
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 >Re: Large progress indicators in Leopard (From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>)

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