Jeffroo Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Well wasn't there supposed to be resolution independence in Leopard? I've searched through the preferences, and can't seem to find it, at all! Help anyone? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camsoft Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I also wondered that, I would be interested to know. It seems to me that most software if not all software would have to be re-written to support it. As most UI is bitmap based not vector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnit Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 tried zooming in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffroo Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 tried zooming in? I tried zooming in, yes. It gets blurry (if I'm doing it correct, (control-mouse scroll)). What I want to do is zoom OUT further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chwilliam Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Yeah, try zooming in. There wouldn't be an actual preference for it, it's something that is part of the basic UI. I would imagine all the base GUI elements have been converted to vector and all the Apple programs probably have been re-done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camsoft Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Zooming is not resolution independence, zooming is no different from what you do when you zoom in on a picture. Resolution independence is the ability to scale applications without distortion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmni Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I wouldn't get your hopes up about resolution dependence getting you more screen real estate. It's more designed for making things on BIG screens look BIGGER. The idea is that interface items don't turn into pinpricks on displays with increasingly high resolutions. It's possible that it will allow us to cram more onto our screens by shrinking the interface, but that's not really the main point of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Zooming != Res Ind. Zooming is in Tiger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chwilliam Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Zooming != Res Ind. Of course it isn't, but zooming would be a way to see resolution independence without getting a fancy, new, big screen. They even used zooming as an example it the keynote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Isn't it mentioned in the 9A466 changelog? I think it reads something like "controls still look bad if the UI scale is higher than 1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joem Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Well in tiger you can enable a very buggy User Interface Resolution by going to Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/Quartz Debug.app and click on the menu "Tools" and then finally "User Interface Resolution." Maybe you can do the same in leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treizep Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Install XCode and in "/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools/" launch QuartzDebug in the menu select Tools then Show user interface resolution and modify the scaling factor. It's still buggy but a great step forward from the 9a410. (excuse my bad english ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnit Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Zooming != Res Ind. Zooming is in Tiger. I realise. I hard heard from a friend that res-independence came into its own when a person zoomed in in the current builds of Leopard and not elsewhere (yet), obviously he was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damirko Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Install XCode and in "/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools/" launch QuartzDebug in the menu select Tools then Show user interface resolution and modify the scaling factor. Yep, that is the way to enable it, or you could do it without developer tools with terminal command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 0.5 to set it to 50% of the normal size, or defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 2 to set it to be twice as big as normal size, or defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1 to revert it back to original. You get the idea - you can change the last number to increase it for any amount. Anyway, I am a bit dissapointed with it, I expected it to be much more refined by now, included in zoom function etc. They hadn't even changed the Apple logo in the top left of the menubar to vector (it is still blurred when you change the scaling factor). I hope it all gets done until the final release, I was loking forward a lot to this function... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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