Re: updates for retina
Re: updates for retina
- Subject: Re: updates for retina
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:41:26 -0400
On Jun 15, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Roland King wrote:
> I was reading around about the new Macbook Pro retina display today and there were quite a lot of comments about how apps may need updating to support it. Chrome was mentioned as an app which doesn't look good currently, I saw the pictures, it's not nice. I understand apps needing 2x artwork piece, that makes sense. However I'm unsure how a normal app (like Chrome) needs special treatment just drawing to the screen and I didn't find a document describing 'all the things you might have to do to make your application retina-compatible', is there one? I thought the idea was it would just work.
Two of my products that make heavy use of Core Animation need to be revised to work correctly in HiDPI mode. One of them has fuzzy animated text, and the other puts everything in the wrong place completely. My other six products work perfectly in HiDPI mode without change, but they do not use any explicit animations. The developer documentation does suggest that there may be some applications that need changes, and I think Core Animation may be a key piece of that. I haven't tackled the fixes yet, but I know I'm using one method that is identified in the documentation as problematic in HiDPI mode, and I think some of my arithmetic may have assumed pixels and points are equivalent.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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