Re: Large progress indicators in Leopard

FROM : slasktrattenator
DATE : Fri Nov 23 23:00:05 2007

Thanks, I'll file an enhancement request. In the meantime, I guess
I'll have to design my own progress indicator .

On Nov 23, 2007 10:41 PM, Ricky Sharp <<email_removed>> wrote:
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> On Nov 23, 2007, at 3:11 PM, <email_removed> wrote:
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> > I tried downscaling but it didn't help. It seems the max size of the
> > progress indicator is some 30x30 px. If the actual rect is larger,
> > it's drawn in white. Yet NSProgressIndicator is a subclass of NSView
> > so I figure I should be able to make it any size I want. Could this be
> > a bug?
>
> Perhaps not really a bug, but now a limitation.  Definitely file an
> enhancement request.  As John pointing out, the control could have
> been already modified to support Hi-DPI (aka resolution
> independence).  My guess is that Apple is using bitmapped images and
> are just providing multi-res flavors (72 dpi and 288 dpi).
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> But, IMO, that's bad!  If I were implementing the control, I would
> allow any size and would either vector-based images (e.g. PDF) or
> drawing primitives for the content.
>
> Note that you'll see the same issues for most other controls as well.
> While they do support res-ind, their sizes are pretty much fixed point-
> wise.
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