GUI Fonts Looked Bitmapped on Mac 10.10

[nikjen2]

Hi.

This link http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/04/2 ... s-and-x11/ implies that it should work.

However, the Open In Low Resolution was checked and disabled, so I needed to do the following hack http://apple.stackexchange.com/question ... d-disabled to allow FreeCAD to run in HiDPI.

And now it does

So adding that NSHighResolutionCapable item in the plist is proably the way forward, assuming it does not hurt non-retina installations.

Now we just need high resolution versions of all the icons

- Nikolaj

[peterl94]

Good, I'm glad it is a simple fix. The icons are SVGs, so I wonder if it is possible to render them at twice the resolution.

[peterl94]

Okay, I created another test with icons rasterized at twice the resolution. What does this look like? qt_test2

[nikjen2]

Pixelated, unfortunately...

- Nikolaj

[peterl94]

Thanks, I didn't have much hope that it would work. I have another idea, so I'll be back with another test.

[TechZen]

Okay, TechZen, or anyone with retina mac, can you run the following test app and then post a screenshot of it? qt_test

Thanks!

It's a binary executable and couple of libs. How exactly or where to I run it from? I don't do QT so I don't know where to park this.

[peterl94]

You should be able to just double click on the executable. Thanks for reminding me about this, I had forgotten there was a couple more things I was going to try.

[nikjen2]

Okay, TechZen, or anyone with retina mac, can you run the following test app and then post a screenshot of it? qt_test

Thanks!

It's a binary executable and couple of libs. How exactly or where to I run it from? I don't do QT so I don't know where to park this.

Hi TechZen.

You have to move/copy the libs to somewhere else before the executable will run. I seem to have placed them in /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6/lib/ which will only work if you have Homebrew installed.

- Nikolaj

[peterl94]

Oh, I didn't know that. I tried to make it relocatable, but I must have missed a path.

[TechZen]

After install QT with homebrew, then copying the libs, then rebuilding again I get

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/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6
./			QMLViewer.app/		phrasebooks/
../			README			plugins/
Assistant.app/		bin/			qt_test
Designer.app/		imports/		qttracereplay.app/
Frameworks/		include/		tests/
INSTALL_RECEIPT.json	lib/			translations/
Linguist.app/		mkspecs/

/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6/lib

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./				QtWebKit.framework/
../				QtXml.framework/
QtCore.framework/		QtXmlPatterns.framework/
QtDeclarative.framework/	libQtCLucene.4.8.6.dylib
QtDesigner.framework/		libQtCLucene.4.8.dylib@
QtDesignerComponents.framework/	libQtCLucene.4.dylib@
QtGui.framework/		libQtCLucene.dylib@
QtHelp.framework/		libQtCLucene.prl
QtMultimedia.framework/		libQtCore.4.dylib
QtNetwork.framework/		libQtGui.4.dylib
QtOpenGL.framework/		libQtUiTools.a
QtScript.framework/		libQtUiTools.prl
QtScriptTools.framework/	libQtUiTools_debug.a
QtSql.framework/		libQtUiTools_debug.prl
QtSvg.framework/		phonon.framework/
QtTest.framework/		pkgconfig/

Using: open /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6/qt_test

gives:

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/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6/qt_test ; exit;
dyld: Library not loaded: ./libQtGui.4.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6/qt_test
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

I never get anything but that last error regardless. Seems to like the test app has a hardcoded path it can't find on my machine.