RE: [GD-General] Scaling GUI graphics

[brian h. <bri...@py...>]

> My favourite solution is to scale, but only by powers of two. So you 
design
> GUI graphics for 640x480. For 800x600 and 1024x768, you don't scale, 
you
> just move them further apart (i.e. the bits stick to the cornr, edge 
or
> centre as required). For 1280x1024 and above, you double the size so 
that at
> least stuff is readable.
 
Doesn't this have the rather unintuitive property that usable space 
actually drops every N resolutions?  So you have more usable space at 
1024x768 than at 1280x1024?  Or is that under "acceptable compromise"? 
=)

-Hook