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jacobseptember opened this issue Sep 17, 2014 · 8 comments
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[OS X] Retina display support (NSHighResolutionCapable and image@2x) #2309

jacobseptember opened this issue Sep 17, 2014 · 8 comments
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Component: IDE user interface The Arduino IDE's user interface feature request A request to make an enhancement (not a bug fix) OS: OSX Specific to the Mac OS X (macOS) version of the Arduino IDE

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Crossposting here and at the Google Groups page; it's not clear which one is more active.

There are two issues regarding Retina support: Text/buttons/UI in general, and high-quality images.

The "simple" text/buttons/etc issue can be addressed by adding the following to Info.plist:
<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key> <true/>
This was apparently done with this commit in August 2012, but the version of 1.5.7 that I downloaded in August 2014 did not have this key in its Info.plist.

The images issue is a bit more complicated. I'm used to working with iOS, in which the OS will generally accept either image.png or image@2x.png (the high-resolution version). This is apparently not the case with OS X; when I try to use an image I created for the little down-triangle in the top right of the IDE, it doesn't show up at all if the filename includes the "@2x" and shows up twice as large as should be if the filename doesn't include the "@2x".
The fix here is more involved, but shouldn't be too difficult (I think). First, high-def images need to be created for the eleven images in Arduino.app/Contents/Java/lib/theme. Then, the source code needs to be modified to look for the "@2x" images as well as the regular ones, and take the correct one. I don't know exactly how this is done, and I suspect it will be more involved in Java than Obj-C. Sorry.

SEE ALSO: Google Code issue 982, Github issue 982, Github issue 2204, Google Code issue 1140

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@matthijskooijman matthijskooijman added Component: IDE user interface The Arduino IDE's user interface OS: OSX Specific to the Mac OS X (macOS) version of the Arduino IDE feature request A request to make an enhancement (not a bug fix) labels Sep 17, 2014
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mbrav commented Oct 7, 2014

Tried adding <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key> <true/> to the info.plist but it didn't change anything :(

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You have to reload some OS cache, and I don't know of any other way of doing that than renaming Arduino.app (though I imagine there must be some other way). I renamed mine to ArduinoHD.app. And then reboot, of course.

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cmaglie commented Nov 7, 2014

Are you using the java6 or java7 version?

It looks like the java6 already have that flag set:
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/ide-1.5.x/build/macosx/template.app/Contents/Info.plist#L17

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I'm not sure which branch of Arduino I'm using. I have Arduino 1.5.7 and Java 7 (just updated to 7 Update 71). My application's Info.plist did not come with that flag, set or not.

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dani-z commented Nov 9, 2014

<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key> <true/>
Worked for me Arduino IDE Beta on Yosemite but only for the text, that was nearly unreadable before.

I don't really mind about the icons, though it would be nice to have them @2x.

Thanks @jacobseptember for the solution.

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Added support for retina display on macosx
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Fix #2309
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cmaglie commented Dec 11, 2014

The key was present in Info.plist but missing in appbundler.jar.
Actually appbundler generates a brand new Info.plist every time the IDE is build.

BTW now it's fixed and will be available in the next release.

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That's great — should be fixed for the text/UI stuff! That's 95% of the whole thing.
Are there plans to make hi-res versions of those eleven images? I could take a stab at it myself over winter break, I just don't know how they would be incorporated into the actual code.

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To refresh cache, no need to reboot Mac OS, just use in terminal:
sudo touch /Applications/Appname.app

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