[Image-SIG] Tkinter and Antialiasing

[Guilherme Polo]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Wayne Watson
<sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> You are right, I should have dropped this into the Tkinter mail list. Thanks
> for the info, but I think I'd like to stick to Tkinter for now. I do have a
> way out of my dilemma. I'm trying to draw something like a compass, and I
> don't necessarily need the lines emenating from the center to the edge of a
> circle. I can just intersect the circle with maybe a 10-20 pixel line. Out
> of curosity, I will re-post over in Tk-ville.
>

Apparently you just ignored me, fine.

> Guilherme Polo wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Wayne Watson
>> <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If I draw a fairly slanted line across an image using Tkinter, it looks
>>> a bit jagged. Is this typical of Tkinter graphics, or is there an option
>>> or mechanism that will antialias?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is ontopic for image-sig, but..
>>
>> Tkinter is not really responsible for the drawing, it just passes the
>> responsibility to tk. The standard tk canvas is not going to give you
>> pretty results, but there is an option if you want to continue using
>> tk for this. Last time I checked you could use the tkpath extension
>> (can be found at http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/), and maybe there
>> are other extensions to do the same.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Win XP, Python 2.5, Tkinter 8.4.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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