Merci, Jean-Michel. Finally someone is seeing this from my perspective. I have a few small final adjustments and I'll be uploading "LavaLamp", my second 16:9 skin. My first skin is still needing some adjustments but I came across this beautiful, stark background and felt compelled to make a new skin with it.
A few days more and I'll be ready to upload. --- Jean-Michel Sizun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Beal wrote: > [snip] > > The reality is this doesn't happen at screen resolutions over the > > default 800x600. If I have my freevo.conf geometry at 800x600, > choose > > a skin built for 800x600 and do "freevo -fs" from the command > line, I > > get icons and images that are stretched. This is to be expected, > > correct? If I change my freevo.conf to *my* default of 1440x900 > and do > > everything else the same way, will I get images and icons > displayed > > correctly? No, I don't. Images are still stretched and, if I'm > > understanding your contention, these pictures shouldn't be. > However, > > if I change the third line in any skin from 'geometry="800x600">' > to > > 'geometry="1440x900">' then I get nice, pretty, properly displayed > > images and icons, although everything is shoved into the top left > > corner. So why isn't the skinning engine correctly displaying > images > > at the intended size and shape? > [snip] > > Both cases feel perfectly explainable to me. > In the first case, you take a skin mean for a 4:3 screen with square > pixels and resize it to a 16:9 resolution, so it is normal things are > > stretched. > In the second case, you take the same skin and change to a > higher-resolution geometry. As you still are in a square pixel > environment, images and icons are properly displayed. But as all > coordinates in the skin stay related to 800x600, everything appear in > > the top left 800x600 array. And in any case, the coordinates there > (even > if they were in percentage) are still related to a 4:3 setup, not > 16:9. > > As I see it, the problem does not lie with the skinning engine. It is > > just that skins so far were meant either for 4:3 screens > (800*600,640*680,768*576,1024*768, whatever... This is the case for > all > current skin , except Panorama), or for 16:9 anamorphic screens > (where > screen resolution is actually 4:3 but stretched out: this is the case > of > skin Panorama). But none for native 16:9 layout/screens. > > To that, two solution: > - either you design a skin for 16:9 screen: take one of the square > pixel > skin, change geometry to either your native resolution (1444x?) or > something like 1600x900 (could be easier to lay things out), and > change > every figure there to fit with this geometry layout and what your > intent is. > - or you change the skinning engine so a single skin can apply to any > > screen configuration on earth (4:3, anamorphic 16:9, 16:9 and what > about > laptop s' 15:9's). Good luck for that. :-) > > Could be really nice if you could contribute such a fully 16:9 skin, > as > for Hasan's one. > > regards, > Jean-Michel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
