Re: Antialiasing/fading label

From: Jens Gruschel (nospam_at_thisurldoesnotexist.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:49:50 +0100

> I'm looking for a label which supports antialiazing or another method so the
> borders of text on the label gets blended with the background.

Such a label can easily be made using Grpahics32 (http://www.g32.org),
there is a method RenderText (IIRC).

The basic idea is to draw the text larger than needed (twice or four
times as large) to a temporary bitmap and downscale it then (using
resampling).

If you don't want to use Graphics32, I have something for you. Take a
look at the attachment newsgroup (but I need some time, right now I
don't have access to the sources, I try to remember to put it there in a
few hours).

But Windows should do this automatically (the LOGFONT type has a
lfQuality member), but Windows sometimes decides not to use antialiasing
(depending on the font and font size, and also on the device the text is
rendered to).

Jens

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