Lilliput resolution? 16:9?

detz · 11-05-2003, 02:54 PM

Im trying to write my GUI before I get the screen but I was wondering what size to make it. I will probably run it 800x600 but will that stretch the image on the 7" screen? I don't want to design something and then find out that it looks like crap on the screen.

GingerPrince · 11-05-2003, 02:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by detz

Im trying to write my GUI before I get the screen but I was wondering what size to make it. I will probably run it 800x600 but will that stretch the image on the 7" screen? I don't want to design something and then find out that it looks like crap on the screen.

If you run the screen at 800x600 then yes it will stretch to fit. The size ideally would be either 800x480 (the native resolution of the screen), or 848x480 (the nearest some video cards can get).

Best see what your card can do.

detz · 11-05-2003, 03:10 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by GingerPrince

If you run the screen at 800x600 then yes it will stretch to fit. The size ideally would be either 800x480 (the native resolution of the screen), or 848x480 (the nearest some video cards can get).

Best see what your card can do.

So if I am going to make a GUI I should do it 800x480? How bad does the screen stretch when you have it 800x600, is text still readable and everything...does it look weird?

GingerPrince · 11-06-2003, 03:52 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by detz

So if I am going to make a GUI I should do it 800x480? How bad does the screen stretch when you have it 800x600, is text still readable and everything...does it look weird?

It's still readable, just everyone has fat heads if you watch video etc

800x480, 848x480, depends on your PC really. Like I say, see what resolution you can get your video card to produce first. If you can't get it to do 800x480, no point in doing an 800x480 skin!

NJay · 11-06-2003, 07:25 AM

The text is very readable at 800x600 albeit not at the right ratio. The link below is to a piccy I took freehand, i.e there is small amount of camera shake.

http://www.celica-club.co.uk/cgi-bin...lliput_VGA.jpg

As to the right ratio. I know these panels are meant to be 800x480 but as I mentioned in another post you get a clearer picture setting up a res of 848x480. I'll post up some more piccies when I get a mini-tripod.

What I would say is that these screens are very good. I have a OEM 64Mb Radeon 7000 and with powerstrip 3.37 I have had it displaying all kinds of resolutions. Basically any resolution that has vertical pixels of 480, 600 or 768 seems to work.

So far have tried all these

640x480,800x480,848x480
800x600
1024x768,1280x768

I've would suspect that these monitors are picking up on the vertical only as for example 640x480,800x480,848x480 all display 640x480 when you bring up the OSD despite the fact you can see that the image the screen is showing is clearly a widescreen ratio for the latter two

This would mean resolutions such as 1024x600 and 720x480 will probably work. Not tried them yet as after all the testing (playing around with custom timings in Powerstrip) I did my eyes were a bit knackered so I'm going be trying them out tonight

detz · 11-06-2003, 06:15 PM

Ok, so about this...would this give me a good idea on what it would look like? Once im down sketching it out, resize it to 800x480 and see what it looks like? Would this be a good representation of what it would look like on the screen?

frodobaggins · 11-07-2003, 01:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by GingerPrince

If you can't get it to do 800x480, no point in doing an 800x480 skin!

well actually if you had a 800x480 skin, and it's stretched to fit 800x600 by the video card, and then constrained again by the monitor, then it will be correct...

GingerPrince · 11-07-2003, 03:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by frodobaggins

well actually if you had a 800x480 skin, and it's stretched to fit 800x600 by the video card, and then constrained again by the monitor, then it will be correct...

...dependant on the media software used. If WMP is used then any video window used won't stretch accordingly, it maintains aspect ratio so you'll have black bars either side. Not sure if Winamp does the same.

frodobaggins · 11-07-2003, 03:41 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by GingerPrince

...dependant on the media software used. If WMP is used then any video window used won't stretch accordingly, it maintains aspect ratio so you'll have black bars either side. Not sure if Winamp does the same.

I'm talking about a skin, not video !

GingerPrince · 11-07-2003, 04:05 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by frodobaggins

I'm talking about a skin, not video !

Yah but a skin, like in my CarBox for example, can embed a player window, which is part of the skin. So for it to look 100% correct when stretched, the video should too!

Just nit-picking