[squeak-dev] Re: [long] Squeak and High-DPI

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue May 3 09:11:53 UTC 2016


Hi Marcel,

On 03.05.2016, at 10:04, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

> Hi, there!
> 
> +1 for updating the OSX VM to support hi-dpi.
> 
> +1 for adding "pixelsPerInchChanged" to Squeak consistently with
> "displaySizeChanged".

It's present on TextStyle class. But we might want to move it.

> 
> ---
> 
> Considering the DPI-awareness of Morphic, MVC, and the base system (e.g.
> text/paragraph rendering), this may need further discussion. However, this
> is can be deferred until the other two above work.
> 
> ---
> 
> We could also provide in-image preference to modify dpi-awareness by editing
> plist/.manifest and restarting the VM. Is there support for restarting the
> VM from within Squeak?

Btw: windows can change this on-the-fly w/o changing the manifest.
and changing the plist on osx does not immediately change this, there are caches that must be invalidated.

Best regards
	-Tobias :)


> 
> Best,
> Marcel
> 


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