ONE skin for all resolutions - possible ?!? (1 Viewer)

[polarie]

hi there ...

just got a question couse i have an idea (but do not know if that should work) :

preamble

i just create the dark essentials skin -
in my office i have a 19" LCD with max resolution 1440x900

@ home i use a video-projector with a max resolution 1280x720 (nativ 1280x800)
so my first attemp of the skin (v0.1) was a little dissaster
couse i build it on core-reloaded which was 1366x786
fixt it (in my office) - so all looks fine ...
tested it @ home nothing fits - no wonder - other ressolution ...

now the question:

is it possible to change the coordinates in the xml file to somthing more usable?

example

max resolution is 1280x720 f.e. the middle of the screen would be

<posX>640</posX>
<posY>360</posY>

better would be a kind of percent data:

<posX>50%</posX>
<posY>50%</posY>

so a button would also have the right possition @ other reslolutions
i know that a percent data is not readable - but is there an other kind of solution...?

if the percent data would work ... all kind of sizes could also be defined in that way ..

result would be that - ONE skin fits all kind of resolutions

hope u understand what i mean ... (i still have a lousy english i know)

kind regards

 

[revs]

I think it would end up being a lot of hassle and quite difficult to design for.

The current engine can scale any skin as long as the ratio is the same. So if we assume for a minute that you are using MediaPortal with a TV (As it is a Media Centre app). Then the possible resolutions are 16:9 or 4:3. So 2 skins will be needed.

Some people will use monitors with 5:4 or 16:10 ratios, but probably not many.

 

[polarie]

ah ok - thx for the information with the scaling -
i thought that something like skin scaling is in the engine ...

so there must be a mistake in my skin-files?

couse there is still a difference in the possitions of the hover-grafics
not the menus - only the hover grafics are in different possitions
@ different ressolutions/monitors/projectors ...

any idea ...?

EDIT:

did two screenshots @ different resolution

in the red circle u see what i mean ...