Livecode IDE Retina Support

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Livecode IDE Retina Support

Post by Danieldz » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:10 pm

Hello all,

I have been looking in this forums and I think that this request hasn't been made.

It would be nice if Livecode IDE had retina display support. What I mean is that if your are working in a MacBook Retina Display you see the elements in the IDE really pixelated: windows, icons, controls, text (even the code).

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Daniel

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Re: Livecode IDE Retina Support

Post by shaosean » Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:59 am

Apparently adding:

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	<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
	<string>True</string>
just before the </dict> tag at the end of the info.plist file is supposed to allow apps to display nicely on Retina monitors, but I have no way of testing it..

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Re: Livecode IDE Retina Support

Post by Danieldz » Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:23 pm

Hello shaosean, thank you for your answer.

I can see that you have a solution for a specific App, but I'm talking about the Livecode IDE.
The quality of graphics and text is really low in retina monitors.

Daniel

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Re: Livecode IDE Retina Support

Post by shaosean » Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:37 pm

The IDE is just an app, so the same thing should work in there.. Unless you are talking about having your compiled apps automatically detect Retina monitors and display the correct resources, the engine can't do that just yet..

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