On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 16:14, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:46 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > I'd agree if monitor shapes weren't changing. > > > > I have fixed-resolution 1600x1024. For development, I like > > to use a 640x768 window. None of the new Macs come with the > > old 4:3 ratio. > > > > The standard canvas shape would look very silly on my screen. > > There would be lots of dead space, or a very different layout > > for the buttons. > > But at the moment there are only two supported Tux Paint geometries, > 640x480 and 800x600, aren't there? Or have things changed since I last > looked?
There's 1 fully working geometry, a number of slightly-tested ones, and a near-infinite number of allowed geometries. Try them all! > It seems to me that Tux Paint was designed to be inflexible in terms of > window layout to keep things simple. If we want to make it flexible in > light of changing monitor aspect ratios (i.e. support arbitrary > geometries) then we had better solve that problem first, and *then* > solve the starters images problems that will ensue (perhaps by a > setting, as you have suggested, or by allowing the user to decide how > the image is to be imported -- stretch, smear, scale up to most > constrained dimension & then crop) per image (or if not the user, the > administrator by specifying in the .txt file). Also, isn't this a > problem for imports in general, not just starters? I set out to improve the general problem of loading mis-matched images. Dealing with starters was undesired and unavoidable. My goal was to nicely handle images like these: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/gallery/tali/Dolphin.png http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/gallery/pescara/classeprimab6.png http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/gallery/ashlyn/20030503171534.png http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/gallery/ashlyn/20030428165845.png With a bit of touch-up, this works too: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/gallery/billkendrick/20031223034753.png _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
