Why is LC text blurred on a retina display?

[Neil Roger]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your input.

LiveCode 8 is indeed still in development stages but I don't think I 
explicitly suggested using it for production work? Yes, 7.0.6/6.7.6 are 
the latest stable releases of LiveCode but I was merely suggesting a 
move to 8 would be recommend especially as the plan is to drop support 
for 6 & 7 when 8 hits GM

More information on this, which I would /highly recommend/ reading can 
be found here-

https://livecode.com/how-to-make-livecode-8-great-with-the-global-jam/

Hopefully you will be able to join in and make LiveCode 8 great!

Kind Regards,

Neil


	

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On 18/09/2015 09:51, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Neil,
>
> LC 8 is still in dev stage. It should not be used for production work. 
> The most recent version officially available for production work is LC 
> 7.0.6. The latest version officially available for text-intensive 
> projects that aren't unicode-compatible yet is 6.7.6. Please, don't 
> recommend dev versions for production work.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Op 9/18/2015 om 10:41 schreef Neil Roger:
>> Hi Tiemo,
>>
>> HiDPI support was added in LiveCode 6.6RC2. You will have to upgrade 
>> to at least this version for text to look crisp although I would 
>> highly recommend starting to use LiveCode 8 ;)
>>
>> More information on this can be found here-
>>
>> https://livecode.com/hi-speed-hidpi/
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Neil Roger
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> LiveCode Technical Support Lead
>> neil at livecode.com <mailto:neil at livecode.com>
>>
>> LiveCode
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>> 25A Thistle Street Lane South West, Edinburgh, EH2 1EW
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>>
>> On 18/09/2015 09:23, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> using LC 6.5.2 and the standard text font tahoma, all texts in 
>>> fields and
>>> buttons look blurred on a retina display in a standalone, compared 
>>> to a text
>>> program or even the finder texts. Because I don't have a retina display
>>> myself I only can test with the feedback of a customer.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do in LC? Is it the 6.5.2. engine itself? Are
>>> different font rendered in different ways? On Windows we have OTF 
>>> and TTF
>>> font, which are rendered in different ways. Is there something 
>>> similar on
>>> Mac? Which is the preferred font on Mac and windows, if it is not 
>>> anymore
>>> Tahoma? Or do we just have to live with a blurred LC program?
>>>
>>> Any hints appreciated
>>>
>>> Tiemo
>>>
>
>
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