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Retina support?
« on: September 27, 2013, 01:38:46 pm »

Do you plan on adding Retina support to MC19? It's looking pretty rough on my MacBook Pro.
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Re: Retina support?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2013, 02:42:52 pm »

It looks rough right now on non-retina too.  From you screen shot it actually looks better on your retina display than my non-retina one.
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Re: Retina support?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2013, 03:04:50 pm »

Try resizing MC.  Matt thinks that Apple is resizing on it's own by zooming in.
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Re: Retina support?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2013, 03:10:50 pm »

Matt thinks that Apple is resizing on it's own by zooming in.

What I wondered was if the OS was rendering at a smaller size and stretching.  This is how Windows does it unless you opt-out (and MC opts out since it can have its font size set independently).
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Matt Ashland, JRiver Media Center

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Re: Retina support?
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2013, 03:28:43 pm »

That's just how non-retina applications are rendered on a retina display. (though MC is the only non-retina application I have now)

I don't know that there's a way to override this behavior, and it would be too small to read if you could.
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Re: Retina support?
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2013, 03:58:10 pm »

I don't know that there's a way to override this behavior, and it would be too small to read if you could.

Not really, because you can pick any font size in Options > Tree & View.

So I think we need to disable the stretching somehow.  Then we probably need to make a few of the graphical buttons bigger.
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Re: Retina support?
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2013, 04:04:09 pm »

It looks like there's an option to open the application in "low resolution mode" but that just seems to remove the filtering.

Changing the font size inside the application is a bad solution - this only scales up the text, and behaves like the old "broken" method of scaling that Windows 7 and earlier used, rather than the proper scaling support that Windows 8 and OS X have.
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