Running 640x960 (portrait) screen on 1366x768 PC screen

Trying to create a portrait orientation universal app, and struggling to get it to display in MMF2 on my PC screen without squashing.

I've tried various combinations of Application properties:
Resize to fit
Change Resolution Mode
Keep Screen ratio
Screen ratio tolerance (0-100%)
Display Mode: Direct3D 9 or Standard

But I can't seem to keep the aspect ratio, it either squashes vertically or stretches horizontally to fit.
I'm going to be doing some scaling of objects and want to make sure I'm not distorting them before testing on iOS device
Anybody managed to get this to work?

I'm also interested in the answer to this.

http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=65876

paobrasil - Thanks, but I'd already tried with that widget. It's not ideal, eg static actives at the bottom of the screen won't display unless set Inactive if too far from frame to No, also Testing if actives are inside the frame edges results in restricting them to top left half of window. There may be more issues, but these are enough to make me cautious about using it, especially as I'll be adjusting objects for universal app. See attached mfa.

Is there not a simpler way with just the Application Properties?

I'm very interested in this. I have parts off screen that I can't interact with on the pc!

The iOS simulators which come with Xcode can be resized.

1920x1200 is a fairly standard pc resolution these days.. use it.

It's really not. The majority of current monitors are the 16:9 ratio, which would put HD resolutions at 1920x1080.

I relented and bought a 27" iMac (2560x1400). I run Parallels w/Windows 8 and develop MMF2 on the Mac as well. So far no real issues and I have the res I need along with the smooth workflow from MMF2->XCode.

DaveC - My PC is a laptop, so 1366x768 is the highest it will go. I also have a MacBook, but that only does 1280x800, so also not a choice.
I don't mind it running at half the resolution (eg 320x480), I just don't want it squashed/stretched as it tends to do (I've managed to get 480x768 or 1366x768)
Guess it's just not possible with my current hardware!

I use the Ultimate Fullscreen extension for this. I set it to go to full screen and fit to height. Since the object isn't supported by iOS it has no effect on the exported project.

There's also the option to shrink the window size with the window control object at the start, so long as resize display to fit is selected.

DistantJ - Thanks - using the Ultimate Fullscreen extension, seems to do the trick! I seem to only need the Action: Misc>Apply Fullscreen settings to Windowed Mode, and that fits my screen without distortion. Also only required on the first frame of my app. Thanks again!

DistantJ - Looks like I spoke too soon! I use Active System Boxes as my UI Buttons and they can be hit even when mouse as not over them (I assume they still think they're stretched wider?) Might be the same for other objects and clicking. So looks like I'll just have to live with the squashed look on PC and check it looks correct on iOS devices.

Well, even without Ultimate Fullscreen object the Active System Buttons click positions are misaligned if the screen is squashed. So looks like I can't go to 640x960 if my screen height is lower than 960. I'll have to compromise at 512x768 or something!

That's weird. A friend of mine made an app in MMF which was portrait, what he did was he implemented a scrolling system which was PC only - if the mouse went below the bottom of the screen it would scroll down, sort of thing, and this scrolling system disabled itself when on iOS (the best way to do this is to add +[iOS] Device Model is equal to "" to any events you want to be PC only).

DistantJ - Thanks for your help, but using the iOS Object, Device Model="iPhone" on my PC (in theory, somebody could use this name on an actual device!) Not sure if this is something that ClickTeam have changed in a recent update, or should I be using the iOS Get Device Extension: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=70953 (this gives rawInfo as "i386" rather than "")

Strange, on mine, device model comes up as "" on PC... Unless they have changed it?

Interesting... I'm running MMF2 build 256.31 (I think it's the latest iOS Export Beta, but difficult to tell with a few updates to MMF2 that supposedly only had HTML5 stuff?)

Why not use a Global String, or better, a Global Value to differentiate between the various runtimes? Just don't forget to update it before building/running.

While poking around in the runtime's code for help with extension development I spotted that the mobile utilities object is supported by iOS, it doesn't do much but the condition "Is mobile" returns YES on iOS, so you could use that and negate it.

How would this process be done?

I'm guessing you'd just stick the mobile utilities object in your frame, create scrolling events for the PC version and add "[X] Is Mobile?" to each of the scrolling events.

DistantJ - After many attempts, I finally got it to work using Control X to detect up & down cursor keys to scroll the screen on PC if display <960. I then added some mouse autoscroll too (thanks for the suggestions!). So here's an example file for others to use, requires Windows Control and Control X (which has the code in a behaviour) Enjoy!

PS Seems like it's only Active System Boxes that have wrong click areas when screen has been resized on PC, fine if you use Buttons, so this is my workaround.