Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Question about aspect ratio on Android

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 01:39:14AM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
> El dt. 29 de 03 de 2022 a les 00:49 -0700, en/na Bill Kendrick va escriure:
> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:55:41PM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
> > > El dg. 27 de 03 de 2022 a les 12:44 -0700, en/na Bill Kendrick va escriure:
> > > > Hi all (esp. Pere),
> > > > 
> > > > This question came in via Twitter:
> > > > 
> > > >   I'd like to ask why I can't force the app into a 16:9 aspect ratio
> > > >   on these new, wider-than-wide phones
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas?  Thanks in advance,
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Tuxpaint on Android runs with --fullscreen native, so it gets what SDL2 passes on.
> > > 
> > > I've never tried to launch it windowed(if that is possible in Android), 
> > > and the small configuration tool for Android doesn't handle window size.
> > > Anyway one could manually edit the config file in 
> > > /sdcard/Android/data/org.tuxpaint/files/tuxpaint.cfg and try that.
> > > 
> > > That said, IIRC the SDL2 version used in the builds is the 2.0.14, not sure if a newer version would help with wider screens.
> > > 
> > > A screenshot of the problem?
> > 
> > They wrote back:
> > 
> >   I can test out a sorta Windowed mode on my phone
> > 
> > I wonder if perhaps we should open a ticket at SourceForge for this?
> > Can you?  Shall I?  Or should I ask them to?  (I hate being the
> > middleman :-) )
> > 
> > -bill!
> 
> I've made some tests in a emulator, about 2:1 ratio, and tuxpaint perfoms fine using all availabe space.
> Re-reading the question seems they want to _discard_ some of the wide space in order to get a 16:9 ratio.

That's an interesting thought.


> If that is what they want, they need to modify the fullscreen line to read something like
> fullscreen=1600x900
> then change the native line to
> native=no
> With that in place I get two black bands at each side of the tuxpaint window.
> 
> 
> 
> It is not obvious to manually change/edit the config file in Android, 
> one must 'su' to the user who owns the tuxpaint.cfg file(u0_a153 in the case of my emulator) 
> and edit the file as that user, so I don't expect any non rooted phone being able to do this.
> 
> Is it worth to extend the config tool to be able to cope with this requirement? 
> Looks doable but it will take some time...
> 
> About the ticket at SF I was going to open it when I re-readed the message, 
> I'd want to be sure I do not missunderstand the problem :)

It sounds like it would make sense to add some options to the
Android mini-version of Tux Paint Config. to support some of
these kinds of settings.

That said, this has been the one and only time anyone has asked
about this. *shrug*

Sorry it took me a month to finally remember to come back and
reply to this!

-- 
-bill!
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