[Qt-interest] opinions on Qt 4.6.2 OSX Coca vs. Carbon?

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de
Tue May 4 18:18:08 CEST 2010


On 05/04/2010 08:12 AM, Ross Bencina wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> For 4.6.2, Cocoa is best because of a bug in the Carbon code that breaks
>> font rendering. There was a thread here about this a while ago.
>
> Thanks Nikos.
>
> Do you know if that font rendering bug is new in 4.6 or if it was also
> present in 4.4?

It's new, and related to WebKit.  I don't have the bugtracker link for 
it handy; I'd have to search.  But here is the post about it, including 
a screenshot of the problem:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.general/29658

It has been fixed for 4.7. 4.6.3, once it's out, will most probably also 
fix the issue.



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