On Jun 16, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: > On 6/16/12 at 5:54 AM, [email protected] (Neil Tiffin) wrote: >> Yep, this "modern" api originated in OS 8.5, was marked as legacy in OSX >> 10.6, is carbon based (IIRC), and will be deprecated in 10.8. Oops. > > OMG -- you mean all this time I've been using BBEdit its text rendering has > been done by less-than-the-latest technology?? And in the future that > technology will be deprecated???!!! > > This must be a severe blow to those suffering from the technology disease -- > you now, "needing" a new product the moment they heard about it, feeling > depressed as soon as a faster model of their current computer is released, > always focused on what will come next rather than on what they can do with > what's available today. > > Don't mean to sound critical of Gabriel or Neil, but IMO these two posts > don't help the OP or any other BBEdit users (no one's running 10.8, for one > thing). They just feed the disease, stimulating more craving for updates, > spreading the idea that BBEdit is somehow defective or behind the times. >
The problem is not at all about BBedit, the technology Bare Bones chose to use, the fact that the underlaying API's are or will be deprecated, or the fact that there may be a bug in the rendering code. It's the fact that a core person at Bare Bones described this technology "as the other 'modern' api". Thereby implying a lot of things about Bare Bones or the OP that are not at all good. I fell out of my chair laughing at that comment. Hopefully, it was just the result of a long day of details. None-the-less, it was a comment that was factually wrong and needed to be corrected. > The OP had a genuine problem, and it's still not clear to me if it's due to > BBEdit, Lion, the MBP Retina Display, or the OP's own settings. > > Has anyone else with a Retina MBP had the OP's problem (poor text rendering)? > > >> On Jun 15, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Gabriel Roth wrote: > >> On 6/15/12 at 2:49 PM, [email protected] (Rich Siegel) wrote: >>>> No; we're using ATSUI, the other "modern" rendering API. > >>> An article at >> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/18/ >> apple_issues_xcode_44_developer_preview_3.html >>> states: >>>> The [Xcode release] notes also cautioned that performance of ATS >>>> APIs will suffer in OS X 10.8 because the ATS.framework is being >>>> deprecated. Developers are instructed to replace all their ATS code >>>> with CoreText as it will be removed in future OS X releases. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
