Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

--- Begin Message --- Hi Andy, I have not idea. But this would be a very valuable effort. Cheers, Alexandre > On Sep 18, 2018, at 5:12 AM, andyl wrote: > > Hi, > > Has any work been done of this? If not, could someone point me in the right > direction to start it, perhaps with a list of

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

I may be wrong but last time I checked access to the OS Graphics API was handled by the VM itself. There was a talk about decoupling that from the VM and porting it to the image but no idea if it happened. if it was the pragma primitive inside the method that means it calls native code , the

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

Hi, Has any work been done of this? If not, could someone point me in the right direction to start it, perhaps with a list of what is already known about the issue? I'd be willing to look at both MacOS and Windows HiDPI rendering at the same time. Presumably the 64 bit MacOS build is Cocoa

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

You can also open an info window about the Pharo.app and check the “Open in low resolution” box. Then you will have a real pixelated graphics and now blurry (which can be annoying). Cheers. Uko > On 17 May 2016, at 22:21, Damien Pollet wrote: > > On 17 May 2016

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

Thanks for this point of view. Just to put a bit of perspective. Indeed, first impressions do count, and now we start to be able to address this part. It took a long time to be able to get to this point, and until now most of the efforts were internal facing (new compiler, new debugger, new

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

My guess is that retina support through Athens rendering and 64-bit are critical to greater adoption of Pharo for several reasons: (1) First impressions matter greatly. If I try to get someone into Pharo and the first thing they see is a pixelated screen, they will have an immediate bad reaction.

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

> > What happens if Pharo is launched on a retina computer? > You get the same thing as on a non-retina display, except instead of each > fuzzy pixel you get a visibly sharper square made of 2*2 retina pixels. > From sufficiently far away there's no difference, but when you're right in > front of

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to the better fonts, but also appreciate all the hard work everyone has put in so far! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Retina-support-in-Pharo-tp4895245p4895558.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

Le 17/5/16 à 22:14, Alexandre Bergel a écrit : My email was _not_ about judging the community effort, but more on whether pharo work on a Retina laptop. ok What happens if Pharo is launched on a retina computer? you get pixelized fonts. But I have other mac app doing the same. Stef

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

On 17 May 2016 at 22:14, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > My email was _not_ about judging the community effort, but more on whether > pharo work on a Retina laptop. > What happens if Pharo is launched on a retina computer? > You get the same thing as on a non-retina display,

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

Okay, this is what I suspected. So buying a new laptop will not prevent me from using Pharo :-) Alexandre > On May 17, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > > it works. > just fonts could be better (and eventually, they will). > > Esteban > >> On 17 May 2016,

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

My email was _not_ about judging the community effort, but more on whether pharo work on a Retina laptop. What happens if Pharo is launched on a retina computer? Cheers, Alexandre > On May 17, 2016, at 2:47 PM, stepharo wrote: > > >> I am about to buy a new laptop. Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

it works. just fonts could be better (and eventually, they will). Esteban > On 17 May 2016, at 21:32, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > > I am about to buy a new laptop. Pharo does not work with Retina display? > How can it be? > > Alexandre > > >> On May 17, 2016, at 2:13

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

I am about to buy a new laptop. Pharo does not work with Retina display? How can it be? Alexandre > On May 17, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes > wrote: > > I asked about this just a few days ago, here's the reply: > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

I asked about this just a few days ago, here's the reply: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-and-HiDPI-tc4894853.html On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:37 PM, markm wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to get Pharo (4 or 5) to run with retina support on OS X? I > have tried searching for some

[Pharo-users] Retina support in Pharo

Hi Is it possible to get Pharo (4 or 5) to run with retina support on OS X? I have tried searching for some answers, but alas could only find a handful of posts from a few years back. Any help much appreciated! Mark -- View this message in context: