Thanks for the terrific work being done on (and with!) processing. I have used it for some time now, with great pleasure. I have a (minor) question about anti-aliased text.

I noticed recently that anti-aliased text looked fine when I put the text over say a rect. However, when directly placed on the sketch, the same text looked pretty awful.

It took me some time to figure out that a simple way to resolve this (much simpler than putting invisible rects under my texts), was to always start draw() with a background() call. I just assumed I had not read the documentation carefully enough to notice this requirement, and was happy to proceed. However, I now notice that some of the examples included in the (148) distribution (e.g. the Examples/Basic/Typography sketch) come without a background() call, and that they also look pretty awful until I add a background call. So what's up? I am using the Windows + java version "as it came out of the box".

Thanks, Jos de Bruin

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void setup(){
 fill(0);
 textFont(loadFont("ArialMT-12.vlw"));      //not OK
 //textFont(createFont("SansSerif", 12, false));   //OK
 background(100);   // does not help
}
void draw(){
 //background(100);  //solves the problem
 fill(210);
 rect(10,10, 50,50);
 fill(0);
 text("Text", 30, 30);  //always OK
 text("Text", 65, 65);  //only in combination with background()
}

OK, so the anti-aliasing goes haywire when done repeatedly without first redrawing the surroundings pixels. That makes sense, sorry, never gave anti-aliasing any serious thought. I guess I will have to make amends by helping out with the examples, I will try to look at them in the coming days.

regards, Jos