RE: [GD-General] GUI Design

[Jamie F. <ja...@qu...>]

it's really up to the user to decide how they want to deal with widescreen
(or other aspect ratios). the engine also provides the physical aspect
ratio. i found that our gui looked fine in widescreen (even though it was
scaled to the wrong aspect ratio), so left it alone. however, i played
tricks with the field of view when we move to widescreen (we don't do what
most apps do).

the bars and springs that brian mentioned seem an excellent way of doing a
more general solution, but for most game apps i'm sure a few boxes in the
right places would do the job well enough.

jamie


-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
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Noel Llopis
Sent: 23 January 2003 11:38
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [GD-General] GUI Design



On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:51:36 +0000
Jamie Fowlston <ja...@qu...> wrote:

> our engine lets the user specify a virtual coordinate system within which
> they can work, independently of the actual display resolution. works fine
:)
>
> what you do as regards multiple monitors and positioning / scaling
> components within that virtual space is up to you :)

How does that work for varying aspect ratios? If the designer creates a
GUI with a certain aspect ratio in mind, and then you switch to HDTV
mode, are components rearranged correctly?

I'm thinking more along the lines of those Java-style layouts, that way
they can put a left box with a bunch of stuff inside, a bottom box, etc.
Then changing the screen ratio would make everything work perfectly.


--Noel
ll...@co...



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