James, as the author of such an app I can tell you that it’s definitely worthwhile overall. For the most part, everything "just works" in HiDPI mode, with some exceptions. It’s certainly a huge improvement on the low-res pixelated look on retina Macs :)
If you get stuck and need some pointers I’ll be happy to help. -Martin > On 29 Jun 2017, at 07:41, Eric Schlegel <eri...@apple.com> wrote: > > > >> On Jun 28, 2017, at 5:34 PM, James Walker <li...@jwwalker.com> wrote: >> >> I see that you can pass kHIWindowBitHighResolutionCapable to HIWindowCreate, >> or pass kWindowHighResolutionCapableAttribute to CreateNewWindow, but what >> if you are using CreateWindowFromNib? I don't see any high-resolution flag >> in the last version of Interface Builder that supports Carbon nibs. > > The UI you are looking for is the “Scaling” attribute in the window > inspector. It should be set to “Framework Scaled”. > > You will also need to set the Info.plist key NSHighResolutionCapable to a > boolean true. > >> Do Carbon high-resolution windows work well enough to be worth the trouble? > > Hopefully so; MS Office 2011, BBEdit, DVD Player, Yummy FTP, and probably > other Carbon apps made the effort to adopt high-resolution windows. > > -eric > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Carbon-dev mailing list (Carbon-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/carbon-dev/martincrane%40mac.com > > This email sent to martincr...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Carbon-dev mailing list (Carbon-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/carbon-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
