[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Ned Deily added the comment: I've just run across an easy way to simulate a retina display on my MBP model (http://stackoverflow.com/a/13596261/145403) and have verified that the change in the plist makes a big difference in Tk text rendering, at least with A/S Tcl/Tk 8.5.13. So I'm going to

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks, Tyler. The 2.7.4 and 3.2.4 maintenance releases have been delayed due to some critical issues and so we don't have a new availability date for the first release candidates. I'll try to remember to ping here when that happens. -- status: open -> pe

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Tyler Crompton added the comment: I will gladly test the changes. Where would I find these to download? -- status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Ned Deily added the comment: I've updated the plists for both IDLE.app and the framework Python.app to enable the high-resolution rendering. That should affect IDLE.app and bin/idle and any other Tkinter-based program, as long as they all are being run from a framework build of Python such as

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2274f3196a44 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2274f3196a44 New changeset 7dfd84021494 by Ned Deily in branch '3.2': Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolu

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Ned Deily added the comment: Tahnks for the suggestion, Kevin, and for testing, Tyler. I'll work up a proper patch and may ask you to test it, Tyler, as I also do not have access to a Retina display at the moment. -- assignee: -> ned.deily stage: committed/rejected -> needs patch sta

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Tyler Crompton added the comment: I can confirm that this works. The underscore does not appear when using the default font settings (Courier, size 10). I changed it to Courier New and all is fine. One may also want to increase the font size to 12 as the font is difficult to read when the prop

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Kevin Walzer added the comment: This can probably be fixed by setting this key in the app's info.plist file: NSHighResolutionCapable Under the hood, Tkinter/Tk-Cocoa uses CoreText to render text, and I understand this to adapt to high-res displays out of the box--as long as the proper key is

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

Ned Deily added the comment: Text rendering in Tkinter applications like IDLE is a service of the underlying Tcl/Tk implementation. Essentially, all that IDLE does is to pass text in a requested font face and font size through Tkinter to Tcl/Tk which may then use whatever approach it wants to

[issue15587] IDLE is pixelated on the Macbook Pro with Retina Display

New submission from Tyler Crompton: I think this is more of a Tkinter issue than IDLE but since IDLE uses Tkinter, it inherits this "bug". Many programs that were not developed for the Macbook Pro with Retina Display still look great. Whereas others, look pixelated in some areas (i.e. the curr