That sounds like what normally happens if anti-aliased text is drawn and
then the rectangle is highlighted in the common, second-generation way
of replacing the background color with the highlight color. The best way
to highlight in systems that anti-alias is to completely redraw the
highlighted material. The performance "penalty" of redrawing is no
longer as severe as it used to be.
Ironically, the "primitive" way of simply inverting a rectangle looks
better with anti-aliased text than the highlight/background-color
swapping method does.
--bp
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:00 AM
To: IE Mailing List
Subject: Re: Favorites Bar and LCDs -- can't something be done?
Hmmm, that must not be true everywhere in the application -- what about
the
left hand pane of the preferences where you select which preference
category
you want? On my screen I see white around the edges of all the text
when
it's selected -- something's not happening correctly there. Is this a
CoreGraphics problem as well?
-Steve
On 5/24/01 12:32 AM, "Jimmy Grewal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The text you are talking about is being anti-aliased by the same
Quartz
> (CoreGraphics) anti-aliasing algorithm that OmniWeb uses. If you have
a
> complaint about the quality of text anti-aliasing, you should complain
> to Apple. The only way to improve the quality of the text on an LCD
> monitor is for Apple to use sub-pixel anti-aliasing.
>
> You might also try downloading "TinkerTool" to adjust the Mac OS X
text
> anti-aliasing settings.
>
> -Jimmy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Sell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:21 PM
> To: IE Mailing List
> Subject: Favorites Bar and LCDs -- can't something be done?
>
> I have to agree the text in the favorites bar is completely
unacceptable
> on
> an LCD (specifically PB G4). With the increasing number of laptops
out
> there (and Apple's recent move to an all-LCD lineup), can't something
be
> done to turn off the anti-aliasing in carbon apps? I am aware of the
> difference between the anti-aliasing in carbon apps vs. what cocoa
> provides
> (font-smoothing? -- I always get this backward). This can easily be
> seen by
> firing up OmniWeb and looking at text that�s the same size.
>
> I know this isn't an MS specific problem, but can the anti-alias be
> turned
> off when this kind of thing happenes. Intuitively, it seems it must
be
> because other apps do it...
>
> -Steve
>
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