[hatari-devel] New Monitor/Window options dialog feedback?

Eero Tamminen eerot at users.berlios.de
Sat Mar 20 21:16:42 CET 2010


Hi,

I think I've now handled all the issues Thomas raised below.

Does it now work e.g. more robustly in regards to available display
resolutions than what we had previously?  Also on OSX?

Any other issues that should be handled before release
(besides documenting it)?


	 - Eero

On Saturday 13 March 2010, Thomas H. wrote:
>> Datum: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:16:10 +0200
>> Von: Eero Tamminen <eerot at users.berlios.de>
>> Before I update the Hatari manual screenshots and description in the
>> Screen
>> dialog section for the new Monitor/Window options dialogs, I'd like you
>> to use them a bit and tell whether they work as you'd expect.
...
> 1) As I described earlier already, I dislike the word "doubling" here,
> since doubling only means scaling by factor 2. However, this does not
> apply for all Falcon resolutions.
>
> 2) "Window" is also somewhat misleading. Hatari runs also on systems that
> do not have a window manager at all (e.g. Wii). I suggest to use "Video"
> or "Host screen" or something similar instead.
>
> 3) The "Max doubled" resolution setting feels very unintuitive. It took
> me a while till a figured out that I now have to increase the horizontal
> resolution to 832 instead of 800 to enable zooming of ST low resolution
> (with borders). The normal Hatari users likely do not now about the
> resolution of the emulated system, so I guess they will be _very_
> confused when they try to enable or disable the  zooming now. I suggest
> to add the "Zoom low resolution" checkbox again to avoid this confusing
> situation.
>
> Another idea: Instead of using "Max doubled" resolution setting, you
> could rename it to "Preferred resolution" or so, and then for ST/STE
> mode, you could use it to configure the border sizes in zoomed mode
> instead (i.e. the nWindowBorderPixels and nFullScreenBorderPixels
> settings). What do you think?



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