Hi Bill & All,I'm glad you're so open about it - that's whats great about you guys... ;-)
I actually think it's more related to a font rendering issue, as it seems to apply to items with [dynamic] text inside.
At least on the deamon/server/Java version.If you look at the shoots I posted, the bounding boxes of the two lower icons suddently overlap when rendered by the server web-interface.
I haven't had the time to do heavy testing on this, but that is my feeling about it anyway.. :-) It's just an awkward feeling when you have spend hours laying out the map and then load it in the web-browser just to see it all miss- plased... by I guess you know.
Best,
Jakob Peterh�nsel
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On 01/06/2005, at 23:20, William W. Fisher wrote:
On May 31, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Jakob Peterh�nsel wrote:Look at the linked maps. They are the same - and then not. The first one is from the web-interface of the IM ServerThe Second is the deamon via IM Remote (this is where it was layed out!)The Third is the same map via the webserver in IM Traditional...Why are they so different? They are both made on Mac OS X 10.4 - but the web version from the Ohh-so-great new deamon version that we are supposed to use, mess up...The Traditional version is, as always has been, Excatly the same on the native interface and the web-interface.Thanks for the feedback.The maps look different because we are using different technologies to draw them. In Traditional, the code to draw into the map window is the same code used to draw offscreen when the web images are produced. Therefore, the map images produced by Traditional are nearly pixel-for-pixel identical between the web and console. (If you use a 32-bit background image however, the result is dithered to 8-bit on the web image.)The code used to draw the map images in the daemon version is issuing the same sequence of drawing calls as Traditional to draw the image "offscreen", but we're using the gd library instead of Mac OS Quickdraw. I agree the daemon output is ugly. We are actively working to upgrade the gd library now.The IMRemote map drawing code uses code similar to the mac traditional version, but we're still off by one or two pixels in a few places. The Mac JVM also seems to have some clipping issues when drawing arcs. (I'm not sure if there is any way we can work- around that.)Regards, Bill Fisher Dartware, LLC ____________________________________________________________________List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk% 40list.dartware.com/To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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