[gcompris-devel] point API

[bruno]

See my previous mail. 
I though I sent it yesterday but for evolution crached (old version of
evolution).

You will understand that I fully agree with you.
Scaling is a very good oportunity for gcompris and it comes at no cost
thanks to the gnome canvas. 
I am currently scaling it to 1024x768 and btw it is not too bad.
Anyway we have to implement the back border. I am on it.

Bruno.
g

On mer, 2001-12-05 at 19:38, pgeorges wrote:
> bruno a écrit :
>  
> > I will try to explain how it works. The gnome canvas provides an
> > automagic way to handle that by setting a zoom ration. This is done in
> > gcompris.c with the call to:
> >  gnome_canvas_set_pixels_per_unit (canvas, xratio);
> > 
> > So at gcompris init, I look at the screen size and find the proper
> > ratio.
> > 
> > I expect the rework to be limited to a few boards.
> > Next it would be great to find the way to go fullscreen.
> > 
> > This is broken for text that are not scaled. Perhaps it will change in
> > the future with pango or new gnome technology.
> 
> To be in fullscreen mode is a very good thing, preventing children to
> click on wrong windows or to be disturbed by other apps.
> 
> But I am not sure that scaling is good choice : pixellisation effect is
> ugly.
> I don't know any 2D bitmap oriented game or edu software that uses
> scaling, maybe it is because there is no way to make things work
> properly (unless there are multiple sets of bitmaps, one set for each
> standard resolution).
> So I propose that a standard resolution is used, fixed at 800x600 for
> example, and that in fullscreen mode, borders appear to fill the screen
> (like in Adibou).
> 
> Pascal