Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how? (Jens Alfke)

2015-01-04 Thread Eden Smallwood
> > From: Jens Alfke > To: Eden Smallwood > > I'm curious why you're doing this on 10.6. Is that the only OS version that > this behavior happens on? > > —Jens I’m endeavoring to keep my little shareware project back-compatible to X.6 As discussed, on X.6 the QL previews la

Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how? (Quincey Morris / Jens Alfke)

2015-01-03 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 9:53 PM, Eden Smallwood wrote: > > Why would an RTF data representation be more amenable to blend modes > than when I’m directly calling [ drawInRect:sasdf > withAttributes:asdfasd] ? Because the client that's drawing the preview can postprocess the RTF (or more li

Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how? (Quincey Morris / Jens Alfke)

2015-01-02 Thread Eden Smallwood
> > Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 22:51:06 + > From: Quincey Morris > > On Jan 1, 2015, at 13:25 , Eden Smallwood wrote: >> >> How does Apple know to make the text white in one place and black in >> the other? > > How are you choosing the color for your text? Have you tried [NSColor > tex

Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how?

2015-01-01 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jan 1, 2015, at 13:25 , Eden Smallwood wrote: > > How does Apple know to make the text white in one place and black in > the other? How are you choosing the color for your text? Have you tried [NSColor textColor] or perhaps [NSColor controlTextColor]? _

Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how?

2015-01-01 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Jan 1, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Eden Smallwood wrote: > > If you’re thinking "Wh on Bk and Bk on Wh, therefore XOR to the > rescue", I’ve tried every conceivable setting of cgBlendMode and > nsCompositingMode and nothing has any effect whatsoever on the text color > which results in the w

Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how?

2015-01-01 Thread Eden Smallwood
Greetings, O readers of the sacred list ! Merry Xmas, and a Happy New Macintosh, btw. On X.6 Snow Leopard, a QuickLook preview executed from the Finder is displayed in a window with a translucent black background. The text color is white, ergo. On the same sy