Many of these technologies provide support for making your rendered content look good at different screen resolutions. OS X offers several system technologies for graphics and drawing. The following sections describe some of these technologies for summaries of all technologies see Media Layer Frameworks.
In these situations, you can take advantage of the powerful OS X graphics technologies. Occasionally, you might need to go beyond off-the-shelf views and simple graphics. In this way, you let the system do the work of rendering the app’s UI appropriately for the current display. The simplest, most efficient, and most common way to ensure high-quality graphics in your app is to use the standard views and controls of the AppKit framework, along with prerendered images in different resolutions. And on a Retina display, users are more aware than ever of your app’s graphics. qt)Ī distinctive quality of any OS X app is high-quality graphics in its user interface.
PICT, BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, DIB, ICO, EPS, PDFĪAC, AIFF, WAVE, uLaw, AC3, MPEG-3, MPEG-4 (. Table 3-1 Partial list of formats supported in OS X
