170166 - Text Smoothing died all of a sudden!

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Owens]

Last night I got the following error in my system log for the umpteen-hundredth
time and suddenly smooth text rendering died:

Sep 21 23:12:09 localhost /Applications/Mozilla
1.1/Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/Mozilla: *** Warning: ATSUMeasureText has been
deprecated.  Use ATSUGetUnjustifiedBounds instead. *** 

Is there an upper limit to the number of time Jaguar will support deprecated
calls?  If so, I am not surpried that this struck Mozilla first as it's the
program I use most.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Owens]

I'm using OS 10.2.1, Mozilla 1.1 20020826

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Jaguar (10.2) introduced a new system call (ATSUGetUnjustifiedBounds), and will
print a warning whenever you use the older ATSUMeasureText. Mozilla 1.1 was
released before Jaguar was released (1 week earlier), so that's why we're still
using the older call. 

It's not an error btw, Apple just prints a warning in the errorlog. I'm not sure
what the consequences are of using the old one, but I don't expect that
"text-smoothing would have died immediately". That's something else.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161332 ***

Comment 3

[Nicolas Owens]

Uh... never mind :-[ this was actually because the 10.2.1 update reset my "Turn
off text smoothing for font size X and below" setting in General Preferences
back up to 10 pts.