On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:47:05PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >unfortunately the effect of reducing the "stair effect" is not that much bette > >r ;( > > the AA canvas draws curves as smoothly as anything i've ever seen. Then I guess you have never seen my program that creates a rendering at 10x the resolution and then downsamples using a gaussian kernel. As close to optics as you can get. ;-) Actually one of the problems of most AA systems is that they just do a block average. It would look better if the average would be more centered like a gaussian kernel, or its equivalent descrete version a binomials (like in Pascal's) triangle. I wonder if there is any HW support for that. > >(i want to make a ballon message window (for the system tray) with round > >corners. and the corners look a little bit ugly...) I guess the problem here is that in order to have a window that look smooth you must have antialiased support on the X-window level, which is currently not supported by most x-servers. You could try to grab an image of the background though and paint on top of that by either lgpl_art or cairo. > > that is a completely different issue. > > --p Dov > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
