Fullscreen GUI

[DamienD]

Hi Toni,

As discussed in my thread about resizing the GUI / adjusting font sizes; see post #2172.

...I tried setting "Fullscreen GUI" but there are 2 issues:

• Firstly, setting this doesn't take into account that you have the "boxart" panel enabled:
• Secondly, if you have the Windows taskbar set normal and not hidden; part of the GUI goes under the taskbar.

Not sure how much trouble it would be, but if the above could be addressed then people could set "Fullscreen GUI" in whatever resolution / font size they desire

[Toni Wilen]

Will be done.

GUI resizing is currently being partially rewritten to handle high DPI properly, also resize works as expected, no extra size re-adjustments after resize or window reopen etc..

[DamienD]

Great, thank you Toni

[Toni Wilen]

I am not sure how to implement this.

There is no guarantee box art window is visible at startup which means GUI will fill whole monitor like normally. If box art window opens later, GUI probably should automatically become smaller horizontally.

What if following config closes the box art window. Should GUI become larger again or stay the same?

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

I am not sure how to implement this.

There is no guarantee box art window is visible at startup which means GUI will fill whole monitor like normally. If box art window opens later, GUI probably should automatically become smaller horizontally.

Yeah, understand.

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

What if following config closes the box art window. Should GUI become larger again or stay the same?

I would say stay the same.

Seriously, I know there are many variables so maybe don't bother.

People will have to resize themselves

[Toni Wilen]

I did bother with it and even added some minor nice to have updates:

- Window title is now config file name (can be also changed to use name stored in config file, if it exists. If really needed.)
- GUI resize/mode change will keep box art window open and it will also resize automatically.
- Full screen GUI autoresizes and leaves space for box art window if any box art config file gets selected.

Warning: still very alpha. Multiple GUI related changes and updates.

[DamienD]

Hi Toni,

Thank you kindly for taking the time to come up with a solution

Must say, I love this:

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

- Window title is now config file name (can be also changed to use name stored in config file, if it exists. If really needed.)

Since being home I've been playing around and here are my observations; note that I'm using Windows 7 with a resolution of 1366 x 768 set.


Default:
If somebody starts WinUAE for the first time and then sets the Boxart panel, this is how it looks:




Default then select "Fullscreen GUI":
From under "Miscellaneous", if I now select "Fullscreen GUI" then this is how things look:




BoxArt panel "optimise":
I think most users would want the Boxart panel "images" to take up as much area as possible so that there's minimal empty space.

To do this I had to resize the GUI left first, and then play around with the Boxart panel width until I got everything looking good. Here's the end result:




I then looked in the registry to see if there's any way to work out the GUI size compared with the Boxart panel size.

There are these, noted as decimal to make it easy:

GUISizeX=900
ArtImageWidth=450

So, I don't know if it's possible for you to code something that keeps these ratios for the GUI vs Boxart panel when in fullscreen no matter what resolution?


Obviously we are going to need more people than just myself to test and also give feedback

[Anubis]

Can screenshots (or box art) be in the same frame as GUI??

Resize list if someone selects to see box art / screenshots.

It would be nice that you can show your screenshots for given game/configuration from screenshots folder.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by DamienD

So, I don't know if it's possible for you to code something that keeps these ratios for the GUI vs Boxart panel when in fullscreen no matter what resolution?

Percentage ratio should work. I'll need to think how to implement it..

Originally Posted by Anubis

Can screenshots (or box art) be in the same frame as GUI??

No, it would make GUI code too complex and "front end" like features won't be part of normal UI window. Using separate window for extra stuff was the only acceptable solution.

It would be nice that you can show your screenshots for given game/configuration from screenshots folder.

How would WinUAE know which config maps to which screenshot? There is not enough information.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Percentage ratio should work. I'll need to think how to implement it..

Cool

To be exact, if I set the following then it's even better:

GUISizeX=897
GUISizeY=719
ArtImageWidth=448



...but I'm being pedantic now; I'm sure a "2:1" / "GUI to Boxart" ratio is suitable.

BTW people, if you want to try out Toni's latest efforts and report back your findings, grab it from the usual place: http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.7z

[Dunny]

Calculate width of boxart panel first. Both image containers have the same height, so:

picheight = (boxart_clientheight - (3*margin))/2
picwidth = picheight*aspect_ratio_of_image_containers
boxart_clientwidth = (2*margin)+picwidth

Once the clientwidth is sorted, you know the actual window width and subtract that from the desktop width to get the config window's proper width.

...I reckon


Edit: Might also be nice to set the configurations treeview's width so it lines up with the right hand edge of the "Delete" button for neatness.

[Toni Wilen]

ArtImageWidthFS added which can be 10 to 90. Default is 50.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

ArtImageWidthFS added which can be 10 to 90. Default is 50.

Hi Toni,

Been playing around with this added feature in your latest beta.

Again, really love this

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

- Window title is now config file name (can be also changed to use name stored in config file, if it exists. If really needed.)

...but I don't know if setting a default of "50" as an "out of the box" solution is good; it looks like this on my 1366x768 resolution:



Setting a default of "33" i.e. the Boxart panel being one 3rd of the screen is much better and a great starting point IMHO:



Of course we should also try and test the result on a 1920x1080 resolution; can someone please do this as I can only when at work (and not really ideal)?

Edit: note that anyone using my collection for testing will need to do the following:

• Download the latest beta from http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae.7z and extract into "C:\WinUAE".
• Run "Regedit", navigate to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software" and totally delete the key "Arabuusimiehet".
• Start WinUAE and untick "Start in Quickstart mode".
• Go to "Paths" and tick "Cache Boxart files".
• Go to "Miscellaneous" and tick "Fullscreen GUI".
• Quit WinUAE.
• Run "Regedit" again and navigate to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Arabuusimiehet".
• Change the entry "ArtImageWidthFS" to be "33" (Decimal).
• Start WinUAE, capture a screenshot and post in this thread.

[Dunny]

Followed the instructions (though had to edit the .ini as I don't use the registry).

Here's the screengrab as requested. Bear in mind that the Fullscreen GUI is ticked, but the UI is not fullscreen when restarting WinUAE - the taskbar is still visible. Unticking and re-ticking the checkbox has no effect other than to close and re-open the UI.

[malko]

Talking about Fullscreen GUI, here is the parameters for the AspireOne (max resolution 1024x600)

ArtCache=1
ArtImageCount=3
ArtImageWidth=299
GUIPosFSX=0
GUIPosFSY=0
GUIPosX=0
GUIPosY=0
GUIResize=0
GUISizeX=725
GUISizeY=570

725+299=1024
570 (+30 for the windows menu) = 600

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Dunny

Followed the instructions (though had to edit the .ini as I don't use the registry).

Here's the screengrab as requested. Bear in mind that the Fullscreen GUI is ticked, but the UI is not fullscreen when restarting WinUAE - the taskbar is still visible. Unticking and re-ticking the checkbox has no effect other than to close and re-open the UI.

Thanks for testing Dunny, also proves that "33" [Demical] for "ArtImageWidthFS" on a 1920x1020 resolution is a good starting point.

I must admit though; when I tried a month or so ago on Windows 10, it was similar to your experience and not quite "Full screen".