Designing with Silverlight

Re: Re: Prevent anti-alias in textbox

SpaceManPlusPlus — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:46:22 GMT

Maybe just change a font, some fonts has no anti-alias

Re: Prevent anti-alias in textbox

CleverCoder — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:09:54 GMT

Agreed. It does seem like just a poorly written anti-aliasing alogrithm. "Blurry" is the best way to describe it. Maybe the ClearType guys can drop by the Silverlight/WPF team and edubicate them on proper anti-aliasing algorithms.. Heck, maybe even wire it in to the ClearType API's or other existing libraries... :)

Re: Prevent anti-alias in textbox

bruce.denham — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:32:57 GMT

Yes, I too would prefer crisp non-anti-aliasing text in text boxes. I think the anti-aliasing looks blurry and unprofessional and I know a lot of users who have that same impression. Typography is one of the most important elements in UI design. But unfortunately it's too often overlooked. We should definitely be given the option to turn off anti-aliasing.

My 2 cents,

Bruce Denham

Re: Re: Prevent anti-alias in textbox

CleverCoder — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:39:54 GMT

Well, perhaps it would make sense for the plugin to detect whether anti-aliasing was being performed on the client. Personally, I find the inconsistency between the rendered HTML text and the Silverlight text to be an annoyance. I would welcome the ability to specify anti-aliasing mode: [ ON | OFF | AUTO ]

Re: Prevent anti-alias in textbox

mchlSync — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:30:20 GMT

hfleck:
anti-alias effect?

x:Name="" ? I think it's not possible to do in Silverlight. Just curious . Why don't you want this?

Prevent anti-alias in textbox

hfleck — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:22:31 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to create a Silverlight application using the classic HTML-Design. Well, the Silverlight textbox using anti-alias effect, but HTML doesn't.

Is there any way to tell Silverlight rendering the text without an anti-alias effect?

Thanks
Holger