PureBasic IDE with Retina looks blurry, a simple solution

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kernasi
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PureBasic IDE with Retina looks blurry, a simple solution

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Hi,
I'm using PureBasic 5.30 Beta 4 and even with the stable version the IDE looks blurry on my retina macbook. This was a show stopper for me; especially as the editor font looked blurry as well :).

But I found a simple solution.

Open /Applications/PureBasic/PureBasic.app/Contents/Info.plist with TextWrangler or your preferred editor and add:

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<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
<true/>
just before:

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</dict>
</plist>
os x caches this file so "touch" the "app":

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touch /Applications/PureBasic/PureBasic.app
Start purebasic now and enjoy nice and sharp fonts. Non-native widgets like the tabs in the IDE above the editor remain blurry but I can live with that.

I hope it helps some poor soul out there.

Kind regards,
Andreas.
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Re: PureBasic IDE with Retina looks blurry, a simple solutio

Post by Fred »

It's added for the next version, thanks.
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Re: PureBasic IDE with Retina looks blurry, a simple solutio

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Fred wrote:It's added for the next version, thanks.
Most of the IDE looks sharp, except the tabs. Can this be fixed somehow also (in new release and/or via trick)?
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Re: PureBasic IDE with Retina looks blurry, a simple solutio

Post by wilbert »

MarcNL wrote:Most of the IDE looks sharp, except the tabs. Can this be fixed somehow also (in new release and/or via trick)?
As far as I remember, the tabs of the IDE are CanvasGadget objects meaning they are images and not optimized for retina ( @2x ).
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