RE: [GD-Windows] Monitor aspect detection

[Jason B. <ja...@in...>]

>>You have four choices then:
>>- Live with that, and let those squares be rectangles.
>>- Assume user is always on a 4:3 monitor. (bye bye good old 16:9
>>projector).
>>- Remove the pesky resolutions (those not clearly 4:3, 16:9 or 3:4,...)
>>from user choices.
>>- Try to find an algorithm, working 100% in 90% of cases, and using one
>>of the above choices for the rest.


If it was an option I'd go with number 4 but add an explicit "calibration"
menu to your graphics setup.
This would allow for FOV adjustment (i.e. "press left/right cursors until
this looks square")
along with other usual suspects - gamma/colour/contrast balance etc.

Its seems you're going to have to except that there's just no way of telling
what the user is seeing unless they tell you somehow.

Jason.