Re: [GD-General] GUI Design

[Ray <ra...@gu...>]

Make sure you take window aspect into account.
For example, if you're in parhelia triple-headed mode, your aspect is really wide and you don't want things horribly stretched.

- Ray

Jason Maynard wrote:
> Yeah I would recommend using values between 0.0 and 1.0 as a percentage of
> the width or height of the screen like you said, you can convert to actual
> screen coordinates by just multiplying the the screen width or height then.
> 
> Another option is to design the GUI layout in a fixed resolution and then to
> convert them into a different resolution apply a scaling factor.  Say you
> have a point (x,y) in 640x480 layout and your screen is in resolution WxH,
> then to find the point (x',y') in screen space:
> 
> x' = x * (W / 640);
> y' = y * (H / 480);
> 
> -Jason