Resolution indpendence

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 14:27:59 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy
<suruti94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Both Mac OS X (Starting with Tiger and then in Leopard) and windows XP/Vista
> (WPF) supports
> resolution independence. In Mac OS X, there is a concept of scaling factor
> which automatically
> scales the UI (not sure how well it works). If i am developing a graphics
> application on Linux,
> how does this work ? What should the application do to handle different
> resolution ? I understand
> that i can set different screen resolutions. But from the application
> perspective, what should be
> done for getting the UI (fonts, text, images...) scale better ?

use svg ...



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