Why is LC text blurred on a retina display?

[Neil Roger]

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On 18/09/2015 11:55, Richmond wrote:
> On 09/18/2015 01:07 PM, Neil Roger wrote:
>> 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
>
> Have you any vague idea when it is likely that 8 will hit GM?
>
> Richmond.
>
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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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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