Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- Subject: Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:19:21 -0500
At least in my quick tests here, some apps work perfectly with RI on
Leopard GM (Calculator seemed to work, your app, dock), some had some
minor issues that shouldn't take much to fix (iCal, iChat, AB). My
thinking is that they just ran out of time to fully implement RI in
the shipping apps. I know Apple has said 2008, but its interesting on
what Apple said about "after much deliberation the feature was
removed". Is that just their terse way of saying its dead or to say it
was moved to 10.6, or to say that since its not ready in Leopard yet
(but maybe a future 10.5.x or LCD Monitor update).
Message: 14
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:05:39 -0500
From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
To: email@hidden
Cc: Cocoa Dev <email@hidden>
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On Oct 27, 2007, at 7:59 AM, email@hidden wrote:
I was a bit dismayed at those talks, when they told us to use high-
res bitmaps instead of vector art.
Not sure who told you that, but that's wrong. You can use either
vector-based or multi-res bitmaps (basically containing at least a
72dpi rep and 216dpi rep).
Vector based is still preferable as it infinitely scales. My app uses
vector-based artwork (PDF) for everything except for the images fed to
NSCursor in which I use multi-res TIFF. Note that one can indeed use
PDF artwork for NSCursor; it's just that my cursor images were 3D-
renderings that didn't look right when vectorized.
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:07:44 +0100
From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: FYI - Resolution Independence
To: David Bainbridge <email@hidden>
Cc: Cocoa Development <email@hidden>
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On 27 Oct 2007, at 13:33, David Bainbridge wrote:
There was a 2007 WWDC session (161, Making Your Custom Controls,
Icons, and Artwork Resolution Independent) that informed us how we
need to make sure our apps were all resolution independent before
Leopard shipped.
AFAIK they've always talked about 2008, not specifically the release
of Leopard, as the point when they expect this to be a mainstream
feature.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
--
http://alastairs-place.net
Alex Kac - President and Founder
Web Information Solutions, Inc. - Microsoft Certified Partner
"It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of
vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion."
-- William Randolph Inge
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