[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20070626-ben-3 Summary: Improve default text rendering in swf8, add api for text rendering hints

[Benjamin Shine]

I don't know the pattern you're describing -- can you be a bit more  
explicit, or show me an example?

On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Max Carlson wrote:

> One more thought: do you need getters for the sprites and LzText?   
> Can you get away with reading properties in LzText, and make sure  
> they're set to the correct default values?  It's faster, and  
> there's less code to maintain that way...
>
> Benjamin Shine wrote:
>> Change 20070626-ben-3 by ben at cooper.local on 2007-06-26 19:56:43 PDT
>>     in /Users/ben/src/svn/openlaszlo/branches/legals
>>     for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/branches/legals
>> Summary: Improve default text rendering in swf8, add api for text  
>> rendering hints
>> New Features: new api on LzText to control swf8 rendering parameters
>> Bugs Fixed:
>> Technical Reviewer: max (pending)
>> QA Reviewer: frisco (pending)
>> Doc Reviewer: (pending)
>> Documentation:
>> Added four new virtual attributes to LzText, each of which control  
>> an aspect
>> of advanced text rendering in swf8: sharpness, thickness,  
>> antiAliasType,
>> and gridFit. These attributes only have an effect in swf8; in  
>> other runtimes,
>> they will quietly be no-ops. We provide set/get for each of these  
>> new virtual
>> attributes, and give them good initial and default values.
>> Note that the default values are set such that <text>boring</text>  
>> will
>> use advanced rendering and subpixel gridfitting by default, with  
>> sharpness=0
>> and thickness=0.
>> Added capabilities for each of these text rendering attributes;  
>> made these
>> capabilities true for swf, false for dhtml.
>> Release Notes:
>> Details:
>> Tests:
>> http://localhost:8080/legals/test/lztest/lztest-textstyle.lzx? 
>> lzr=swf8&debug=true sussurate should look good but blurry. mimsy  
>> borogroves should look not great.
>> "i should look bad" and "pixel gridfit" should have weird color  
>> bands around the text
>> http://localhost:8080/legals/test/lztest/lztest-textstyle.lzx? 
>> lzr=swf8&debug=true all the text should look the same
>> "ant doc" still works
>> Files:
>> M      test/lztest/lztest-textstyle.lzx
>> M      test/text/fonts.lzx
>> M      WEB-INF/lps/schema/lzx.rnc
>> M      WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/swf/LzTextSprite.as
>> M      WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/swf/LzSprite.as
>> M      WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml/LzSprite.js
>> M      WEB-INF/lps/lfc/views/LzText.lzs
>> Changeset: http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20070626- 
>> ben-3.tar
>> Benjamin Shine
>> Software Engineer, Open Laszlo / Laszlo Systems
>> ben at laszlosystems.com
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org