On Monday 03 January 2005 19:27, Ivor Hewitt wrote: > The text is now rendered in monochrome and not anti-aliased so you need to > make sure you have freetype hinting working and you are using a font that > supports it. (e.g. Arial). Then the fonts should look ok.
i tried both the ttf fonts supplied with myth i will try with arial... done that. it is better - but not great. will check hinting later today > > when you hit "M" to get the menu i notice that the areas of flat colour > > are not that (flat). is this the best it will get? > > Um. which areas of flat colour? can you describe what you're seeing? after you select Menu you get a series of options on the top left of the screen: Program Guide Picture-in-Picture Enable Browse Mode etc. the highlighted one has a solid grren background - fine the others have an alpha blended gray background (hard to describe) this is rendered in three bands (lightest at the top going o darkest at the bottom it just looks odd to me i cannot take a screenshot as this is overlaid - i tried anyway, knowing it would fail - and it did :-) > > ps wrote an ebuild to apply this automagically if anyone is interested > Hmmm, I'd rather that only people who know what they're doing use this for > now so it's probably best that it has to be manually applied. ok, but there an awful lot of people on this list who have great difficulty with patch/diff/cvs/... at least with an ebuild that all happens for you programmatically. i'll write my own ebuild rather than install something manually. i have ebuilds for the cvs versions of myth and the latest ivtv driver regards -- simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
