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

Jerome Vernet vernet.jerome at wanadoo.fr
Sat Mar 20 21:47:22 CET 2010


Le 20/03/10 21:16, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> 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?
>    
I really cannot undestand how this Max Doubled resolution work. It do 
something even on Mac OsX. For example, I've put 1024x768. Falcon Low 
RES show in a bigger windows than High Res, is it normal ?
I was able to set a max doubled resolution (1280x896) greater than the 
real max resolution (1280x800) on my mac, causing a crash will toggling 
to full screen.

Jerome

> 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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