Re: Re: Patch to enable Quartz font smoothing on MACOSX

Re: Re: Patch to enable Quartz font smoothing on MACOSX

[Niv Drory]

> I can only be in favor of adding this patch if `./configure' is made
> to automatically determine whether the function SwapQDTextFlags is
> available.  An option to `./configure' is not a good solution.

Some people prefer QuickDraw font smoothing, that's why I'd prefer a
user setable switch. Anyway, here's a patch to configure.in

--- configure.in	Wed Aug 13 07:40:21 2003
+++ configure.in.new	Wed Aug 13 07:42:08 2003
@@ -2218,6 +2218,7 @@

 ### Use Mac OS X Carbon API to implement GUI.
 HAVE_CARBON=no
+ENABLE_QUARTZ_FONT_SMOOTHING=no
 if test "${with_carbon}" != "no"; then
   AC_CHECK_HEADER(Carbon/Carbon.h, HAVE_CARBON=yes)
 fi
@@ -2235,6 +2236,12 @@
   fi
   # We also have mouse menus.
   HAVE_MENUS=yes
+  # check for Mac OS X Version >= 10.1.5 for Quartz font-smoothing
+  # (this corresponds to Darwin 5.5)
+  darwin_55=$(expr $(uname -r) ">=" 5.5)
+  if test ${darwin_55} = 1 ; then
+    AC_DEFINE(ENABLE_QUARTZ_FONT_SMOOTHING, 1, [Enable Quartz font smoothing])
+  fi
 fi

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Re: Patch to enable Quartz font smoothing on MACOSX

[Andreas Schwab]

Niv Drory <drory@astro.as.utexas.edu> writes:

|> > I can only be in favor of adding this patch if `./configure' is made
|> > to automatically determine whether the function SwapQDTextFlags is
|> > available.  An option to `./configure' is not a good solution.
|> 
|> Some people prefer QuickDraw font smoothing, that's why I'd prefer a
|> user setable switch. Anyway, here's a patch to configure.in
|> 
|> --- configure.in	Wed Aug 13 07:40:21 2003
|> +++ configure.in.new	Wed Aug 13 07:42:08 2003
|> @@ -2218,6 +2218,7 @@
|> 
|>  ### Use Mac OS X Carbon API to implement GUI.
|>  HAVE_CARBON=no
|> +ENABLE_QUARTZ_FONT_SMOOTHING=no
|>  if test "${with_carbon}" != "no"; then
|>    AC_CHECK_HEADER(Carbon/Carbon.h, HAVE_CARBON=yes)
|>  fi
|> @@ -2235,6 +2236,12 @@
|>    fi
|>    # We also have mouse menus.
|>    HAVE_MENUS=yes
|> +  # check for Mac OS X Version >= 10.1.5 for Quartz font-smoothing
|> +  # (this corresponds to Darwin 5.5)
|> +  darwin_55=$(expr $(uname -r) ">=" 5.5)

This will fail when `uname -r' return "5.10".  Why can't you just check
for the existence of a particular function in the library?

Andreas.

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