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/IDLE.app/Contents/Info.plist b/Mac/IDLE/IDLE.app/Contents/Info.plist
index 8bffb9a572891bed2cb86ec3ff750d949d0b20bd..81daff3dc9cee74043e10f436ca1dd56e32756c4 100644 (file)
--- a/Mac/IDLE/IDLE.app/Contents/Info.plist
+++ b/Mac/IDLE/IDLE.app/Contents/Info.plist
@@ -53,5 +53,7 @@
        <string>????</string>
        <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
        <string>%version%</string>
+       <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
+       <true/>
 </dict>
 </plist>

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 b2e6f7e5e584f4851f25087746be1b34ecd6a025..9f2f59a5e74f3ef67532fad5d717ac91b69dd2ad 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -960,6 +960,10 @@ Build
 
 - Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
 
+- 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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