[haiku-development] Re: Disable BView antialiasing

  • From: Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:30:58 -0400

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I like the StrokeAliasedLine route inside the view.
>>
>> I don't like introducing a whole new set of methods. I'd rather have a
>> toggle switch that affects all existing methods without a lot of fuss. :-)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -Stephan
>
> IMO this is the way to do it - if AA is on by default (which it should
> be) the only apps that are likely to want to turn it off are older
> beos apps. Having one switch function to call will be a much quicker
> change to make than doing every draw call.
>
>

One problem with requiring it to be turned off is the fact that many
older BeOS apps can not be recompiled, and the source for them has
gone missing. Therefore, you couldn't add a call to this function to
turn off AA.

-- 
- Dustin L. Howett

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