Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Roger Guay
Ah, sorry I posted too soon. This seems to be what's happening! On Jul 6, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > Whenever UI elements are enlarged by the OS the LiveCode icons will look > blurred and the text won't be as sharp. LiveCode doesn't support resolution > independence yet and so l

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks very much, Richmond and Trevor. From your reports, it does appear to be a monitor quality issue which I have passed on to my friend. I have to wonder though why his LiveCode seems to be worse than his other apps?? On Jul 6, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 07/06/2013 08:49 PM, T

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Saturday, July 6, 2013, Richmond wrote: > > > Maybe it is a simple fact that my 51 year old eyes may not be quite as > good (/ fussy) as yours are :) > That is also a possibility. We shouldn't rule anything out :-) -- Trevor DeVore ___ use-livecode

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Richmond
On 07/06/2013 09:10 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Perhaps. But the UI elements are clearly larger at 150% which occurs regardless of whether or not you are running on a retina Mac. Whenever UI elements are enlarged by the OS the LiveCode icons will look blurred and the text won't be as sharp. LiveCod

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
Perhaps. But the UI elements are clearly larger at 150% which occurs regardless of whether or not you are running on a retina Mac. Whenever UI elements are enlarged by the OS the LiveCode icons will look blurred and the text won't be as sharp. LiveCode doesn't support resolution independence yet a

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Richmond
On 07/06/2013 08:49 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Richmond wrote: Well: I just ran LC 6.1 Community on Windows 7 (via VMware player 5.02) at both 100% and 150% scaling and, in both cases, Livecode came through "loud, clear and crispy sharp" so that does not seem to

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Richmond wrote: > Well: I just ran LC 6.1 Community on Windows 7 (via VMware player 5.02) at > both 100% and 150% scaling and, in both cases, Livecode came through > "loud, clear and crispy sharp" so that does not seem to be the problem. Hmm, I had a different ex

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Richmond
On 07/06/2013 06:04 PM, Richmond wrote: On 07/06/2013 05:54 PM, Roger Guay wrote: Thanks, Richmond. Any ideas why he is not experiencing same? Trevor's bit about scaling does make sense: I haven't tried messing around with that. I have a feeling that scalability was one of the stretch goals

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Richmond
On 07/06/2013 05:54 PM, Roger Guay wrote: Thanks, Richmond. Any ideas why he is not experiencing same? Trevor's bit about scaling does make sense: I haven't tried messing around with that. I have a feeling that scalability was one of the stretch goals. On Jul 5, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Richmo

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Roger Guay
Sounds reasonable. I'll have him check this out. Thanks, Trevor On Jul 6, 2013, at 5:35 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I convinced a good friend to try LiveCode. He's a Windows guy and I, a >> Mac. I am forwarding his question

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks, Richmond. Any ideas why he is not experiencing same? On Jul 5, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 07/06/2013 02:41 AM, Roger Guay wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I convinced a good friend to try LiveCode. He's a Windows guy and I, a Mac. >> I am forwarding his question to me about the de

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > Hi All, > > I convinced a good friend to try LiveCode. He's a Windows guy and I, a > Mac. I am forwarding his question to me about the degraded appearance of > Livecode on his screen in contrast with his other installed apps. I have no > idea ab

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-05 Thread Richmond
On 07/06/2013 02:41 AM, Roger Guay wrote: Hi All, I convinced a good friend to try LiveCode. He's a Windows guy and I, a Mac. I am forwarding his question to me about the degraded appearance of Livecode on his screen in contrast with his other installed apps. I have no idea about this . . .Ca

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-05 Thread Roger Guay
Good idea, Andrew. I'll ask my friend to send a screenshot. Thanks for your help! On Jul 5, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > Screenshots would help. I use livecode on windows 7 and we have some apps > running on windows 8. Things seem great here. > > Andrew > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013

Re: LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Screenshots would help. I use livecode on windows 7 and we have some apps running on windows 8. Things seem great here. Andrew On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > Hi All, > > I convinced a good friend to try LiveCode. He's a Windows guy and I, a > Mac. I am forwarding his quest

LiveCode IDE Appearance on Windows

2013-07-05 Thread Roger Guay
Hi All, I convinced a good friend to try LiveCode. He's a Windows guy and I, a Mac. I am forwarding his question to me about the degraded appearance of Livecode on his screen in contrast with his other installed apps. I have no idea about this . . .Can anyone help? Thanks, Roger Begin forw