Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- Subject: Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:15:44 -0500
On Oct 27, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
On 27 Oct 2007, at 12:47, Ricky Sharp wrote:
I'm not angry that I spent time making my app res-ind (been doing
so since the Tiger tech talk back in 2004). But, I'm quite
disappointed this feature has not made it to prime time. I'll
continue ensuring my app works well will other scaling factors in
hopes the feature may one day return. And, will still file bugs.
I thought Apple had always made clear that resolution independence,
as an end-user feature, would "go prime time" when high-dpi panels
were shipping in their machines.
Well, they already ship such panels. I don't have the slide handy,
but I remember looking at the entire product lineup, and I believe the
highest dpi device is now hovering around 200 dpi.
I don't think it was ever the intent (at least, as far as I'm aware)
to provide an end-user UI for it before that point, and my guess is
that even when high-dpi panels are shipping with Apple machines,
resolution independence will be *primarily* an automatic feature
(i.e. you plug-in a high-dpi panel, and that panel runs with a
non-1.0 scale factor). It seems to me that the idea of getting us
to get our apps to support RI *now* is that, when the high-dpi
panels become readily available, everything will "just work" in the
usual way that people expect with Apple kit.
I suppose I'm surprised that you're surprised.
I'm not surprised, just a bit disappointed. Other than the NSCursor
issue, framework scaling is working as advertised.
(The only query I have really about RI is what happens with machines
that have a normal panel and a high-dpi panel... presumably someone
at Apple has thought this through, or is doing so right now.)
You mean dual monitors? It should "just work". After all, if your app
draws to points and not pixels, it is now "resolution independent".
One square inch worth of graphics your app draws will occupy a
physical inch on either monitor, no matter what the individual
monitor's dpi is.
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