Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Antialiasing: whether jEdit can

[mike d. <md...@st...>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote:
> jEdit is lovely. But today the main "buzzword" in X world is antialiazing.
> Several days ago J developers released the version which has this nice
> feature. Will jEdit have it? AFAIK it is very easy in Java 2D... Usual fonts
> under X look really ugly in jEdit...

it does indeed look pretty easy, though since jEdit supports JDK 1.1, the
implementation could be a bit tricky. here's a useful URL i found:

	http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Java2D-Tutorial.html

there is discussion of antialiasing in section 8.

we could have a subclass of TextAreaPainter (e.g. TextAreaPainter2D) that made
use of the Java2D that could be available to those running under JDK 1.2 or
higher. it could be controlled by an option, e.g. "high quality text display"
in the Editor option pane.

-md