Text on charts with the IMRemote version is very
large and sometimes blurry compared to the
Traditional version. This is one reason why I
have not found myself wanting to use IMRemote or
Console. The other reason is lack of important
features (Device List and Notification List).
At 5:20 PM -0400 6/1/05, 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 Server
The 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
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