Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with

Retina displays.  Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5+.
Suggested by Kevin Walzer

diff --git a/Mac/IDLE/Info.plist.in b/Mac/IDLE/Info.plist.in
index dc09be88fe693aaab8b28a9fc0a4bda1681494b4..71ff0ff778a108b31697433df4e6ffa105ed95bc 100644 (file)
--- a/Mac/IDLE/Info.plist.in
+++ b/Mac/IDLE/Info.plist.in
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
        <string>%VERSION%</string>
        <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
        <string>%VERSION%</string>
+       <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
+       <true/>
 <!--
        <key>LSMinimumSystemVersionByArchitecture</key>
        <dict>

diff --git a/Mac/Resources/app/Info.plist.in b/Mac/Resources/app/Info.plist.in
index a91b1eec2944c2ceb7dc6dd3d846f5c0a4e2d7f9..8af5efcdfaf5fa5aec277117293a6f890d677951 100644 (file)
--- a/Mac/Resources/app/Info.plist.in
+++ b/Mac/Resources/app/Info.plist.in
@@ -56,5 +56,7 @@
        <true/>
        <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
        <string>(c) 2013 Python Software Foundation.</string>
+       <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
+       <true/>
 </dict>
 </plist>

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 591aad1100b52214b5e485f42f2c3b01e07340b5..fb68ddebb2892f3c024b84dc3df97183513c6b2b 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -800,6 +800,10 @@ Build
 
 - Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
 
+- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
+  Retina displays.  Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
+  framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
+
 Tools/Demos
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