Why is LC text blurred on a retina display?

[Richmond]

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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