[Paraview] ParaView on a Retina display

[Pierre-Olivier Dallaire]

Hi Robert, is there an easy to "force" the ParaView CVS to compile against qt 5 ? 
Thanks
PO

On 2012-09-05, at 3:11 PM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:

> I'm compiling QT 5 beta to see what happens, I'll see if I can get ParaView 3.14 compiled against it.
> 
> On 2012-09-05, at 1:27 PM, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>> I do believe that is correct. I don't know what version of Qt will have retina support by default.
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> Thanks / yes, that takes care of rendering the fonts correctly, icons are still blurry but overall it's better.
>> My guess is that to get the full retina support, that means QT needs to be updated first … ?
>> 
>> 
>> On 2012-09-05, at 10:15 AM, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> As a temporary workaround you can manually modify the paraview application to enable retina support.
>>> I haven't verified that all the icons layout properly.
>>> 
>>> You need to edit the info.plist inside the Paraview.app/Contents/ folder and add the following two lines as the
>>> first items in the <dict>:
>>> 
>>> <key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
>>> <string>NSApplication</string>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm testing ParaView on a new MacBook Pro Retina and was wondering if there is
>>> any plan to support that hardware in a near future ? The application works great
>>> but the GUI is not as "sharp" as it could be in on this display.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> PO
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