saving startup size and meanderings (1 Viewer)

[dir]

When I start up MP on my desktop PC, it always starts in 4:3 ratio. Since I'm using a widescreen skin, all the images and icons are squished.

I resize the window manually to make it look more widescreen, but there's no way to save it so that it always launches in this size. I can use the screen calibration thing but that just gives me numeric feedback on how big the window is.

All I want to be able to do is set MP so that it always launches in the correct window size. I don't want to go fullscreen on my PC as I'm just doing testing, and I'm running a 24" monitor and would like to do other things while I'm using MP.

Is there some command line options I can use?

Tried searching the forum and FAQ and read the manual but no luck.

If it's in the forums I'd love to know a search string that would find it - I drowned in results when I tried any of the following:

screen size
calibration
startup
command line
gui size
etc. etc.

I'm new to MP but struggling sometimes with it - it has design elements that I find almost foreign, as if the designers are from a unix background or something. Not bad, just not intuitive to a long-time Windows user. An example is a configuration pop-up that doesn't have an "Accept/Cancel" or "OK" button, and only the normal "X" to close the window, which apparently saves the changes you make - this is the opposite behaviour to standard windows, where "X" will cancel your changes unless you click Save/Apply/Accept/OK first.

Just mentioning this stuff cuz little differences like this alienate the "great unwashed" moms and dads out there that may want to use MP some day. If the experience requires too much insider knowledge, the app will remain in the domain of the technical elite...

Anyway, point me in the right direction and I shall endevour to edify myself!

 

[Nightmare77]

think you may need to have a look in the logs at what resolution your screen is, theoritically if you run fullscreen MP should be the same resolution as your desktop, so if you have a widescreen resolution in windows and a widescreen skin in MP and you are in fullscreen it should be fine and not squished. Be interesting to see what the log says is your res.

 

[dir]

No, sorry, you misunderstand. I do not want to run it fullscreen. I want to run it in the top left corner of my screen, because I have a large widescreen monitor and I want to multitask. Good for setup and debugging when you want to see a few things.

I accept that fullscreen is the normal mode for using MP, but for those that don't want to use it fullscreen, I'm asking that it doesn't just assume that you have 4:3 and give us the option to save whatever screensize we manually change it to - or to have options for preferred standard sizes, or possibly runtime options (e.g. -sh720 -sv576 or something).

 

[Tomy]

that would have to be made by the programmers, something like 'remember previous position and size' (i have seen software remember position- like mediaplayerclassic, but almost none to remember size).

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

The fit MP to skin option gives you the right aspect ratio in a window, but it fills a 720 HD screen up.

This has alway's been a let down for MP as most software that comes with Tv cards are very good at "shrinking" into a corner of a screen.

As you said resizing it manually does the job, but you have to do it every time.

The chances of anything being done over this are very small, feature freeze and MP designed to run fullscreen.