[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20070627-ben-L Summary: [UPDATED] Improve text rendering in swf8, add api for text rendering hints

[Max Carlson]

Approved!  I'm not sure you really need the change to 
test/text/fonts.lzx (it just adds an id)...

Benjamin Shine wrote:
> (For your enjoyment, an updated changeset, responding to all of the
> suggestions from the last one.)
> 
> Change 20070627-ben-L by ben at bens-g5.local on 2007-06-27 10:35:39 PDT
>     in /Users/ben/src/svn/openlaszlo/branches/legals
>     for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/branches/legals
> 
> Summary: [UPDATED] Improve 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), ptw (pending)
> QA Reviewer: (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 normal rendering, because advanced rendering causes a performance 
> hit. To
> get the advanced rendering, just set antiAliasType="advanced" on the text
> object.
> 
> Added capability "advancedfonts" for these text rendering attributes; 
> made it
> true for swf, false for dhtml.
> 
> Release Notes:
> To get advanced rendering in swf8, just set antiAliasType="advanced" on 
> a text
> object.
> 
> 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
> http://localhost:8080/legals/test/text/renderingcomparison.lzx?lzr=swf8
>  should look really cool, with each of the text objects in the top three
>  rows looking slightly different.
> 
> 
> Files:
> M      test/lztest/lztest-textstyle.lzx
> M      test/text/renderingcomparision.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/20070627-ben-L.tar

-- 
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org