[PD] [gem] how to fit a rectangle into gem-window in fullscreen-mode

[B. Bogart]

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Jerome Tuncer wrote:
> Hallo Iohannes,
>
> You said something that I find interesting as I'm trying to learn Gem,
>
> The height of the GemWin will always be 4 units? How's that?
>
> Where was I supposed to find about that? I have read a few
> documentations and none of them specified this... Do you recommend one
> in particular?
>
>
> Jé
>
>
> IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
>
>> Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>
>>> hi
>>> i'd like to show some images in fullscreen-mode with
>>> gem. since it is cheaper to use [pix_texture] than to
>>> draw the image directly, i draw a rectangle that fits
>>> exactly in the gem-window and apply the image as a
>>> texture. i plan to create an application that will be used on
>>> different machines with different displays. at the
>>> moment i have to change the dimensions of the
>>> [rectangle] manually when i use the patch on a machine
>>> with different display-resolution.
>>
>>
>>
>> no you don't!
>>
>>
>>> i think there is a relation between the used
>>> resolution and x- and y-values of [rectangle], but i
>>> failed finding it. is there a way to calculate these
>>> values from the resolution in order to fit the
>>> [reactangle] exactly into the gem-window? this would
>>> allow to write the actual resolution in a config-file
>>> whitout the need of changing the patch.
>>
>>
>>
>> the only problematic thing that can happen to you is when your
>> aspect-ratio changes.
>> a rectangle that covers the full-screen on 500x500 will not cover the
>> entire screen on 800x600;
>> however: the same rectangle that covers 1024x768 will also cover a
>> 1600x1200 screen (or a 320x240 window)
>>
>> note: the height of the gemwindow will always be 4 units (the width will
>> change with the aspect-ratio)
>>
>> note: you will probably want to keep the aspect-ratio in order to not
>> distort your images)
>>
>>
>> mf.a.r
>> IOhannes
>>
>> PS: if you find that i am talking non-sense, then you are likely to have
>> discovered a bug
>>
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