[hatari-devel] FYI: new --desktop option

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On keskiviikko 30 maaliskuu 2011, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> In which order you think these should be preferred in case all of them
> don't fit into screen?  For example if doubling & borders fit fully in
> horizontal direction, but in vertical direction you need to choose
> between the two?
>
> Also, if --desktop option is taken into use for ST/STE screens too, the
> most likely case is a lot of black borders in fullscreen.  Even
> otherwise you're going to have black borders with 460x2 horizontal
> resolution as it doesn't match standard resolutions offered by monitors:
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vector_Video_Standards2.svg
> 
> Have you considered adding centering of the ST/STE screen contents so
> that it doesn't just end in top left corner of the resolution provided
> by SDL for fullscreen?

Assuming doubling has more priority than borders, I think you should take
in your code into account also negative border sizes.

User couldn't of course set negative border values in UI or configuration
file, but internal run-time border variables could be negative if only part
of the doubled Atari screen fits to the available resolution, like the
320x240 one available in GPX2.


> Then to the options dialog layout...
...
> It would be nice to be able to move some of that stuff to the Monitor
> options dialog[1], but I don't think they really would belong there.  :-/
> What do you think?

You said that border values are like monitor settings, so those could
actually be in monitor section.  Assuming that UI has just a knob for
doubling ST/STE low, the dialogs could look like in the attached layout.

Nicolas, what do you think?


	- Eero
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         Atari monitor

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    [] Show ST/STE borders:
        top:    <- xxx ->
        left:   <- xxx ->
        right:  <- xxx ->
        bottom: <- xxx ->


  [] Use extended VDI screen

  Size:          o  2 colors
    <- xxx ->    o  4 colors
  x <- xxx ->    o 16 colors


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  Hatari screen options        [] Double ST/E low

  [] Fullscreen   Frame skip:  [] Keep desktop
                   o Off          resolution
  Indicators:      o 1
   o Statusbar     o 2        Max zoomed (win):
   o Drive led     o 4           <- xxx ->
   o None          o Auto      x <- xxx ->


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