Change aspect ratio at runtime

[netninja]

I was wondering if it's possible to toggle the "Keep screen ratio" application option at runtime?

Some players using widescreen monitors like to have their game streched while others prefer black bars on the sides. Currently, I believe I would have to make two seperate actives to accomodate this.

If it's not possible to do it natively, would it be possible to do it via an extension?

[Shawn]

Hmm. I can't think of a way to do that at runtime. I do know you can have it keep the aspect ratio on widescreen using a method with subapps. I'm currently using that for a project. I don't think there is a way to toggle at runtime though unless there is an extension, but I have no clue if there is one.

Only other way I can think of is if you can use the subapp method I was using and be able to change it using values at runtime. But I'm not sure if that works. RickyRombo provided the example I used and I customized it for what I'm doing.

http://rickyrombo.byethost2.com/examples/Scaled%20Fullscreen.php

[netninja]

Thanks Shawn. I do remember seeing this example before actually. It's a good work around, but it would be nice to do it natively. If it were a really big project there might be some stability/slowdown issues associated with using a subapp the whole time... then again maybe not!

[Shawn]

Thanks Shawn. I do remember seeing this example before actually. It's a good work around, but it would be nice to do it natively. If it were a really big project there might be some stability/slowdown issues associated with using a subapp the whole time... then again maybe not!

I agree 100%. Hopefully in my project I won't run into slowdown issues. I'm not actually doing a whole lot of intensive stuff so I should be fine. If I do have issues it shouldn't be too hard to remove the subapp and revert back.

Still, it seems like a ridiculous work around for something that should be relatively simple to implement. Hopefully someone could create an extension. I'm not sure if that's possible or not, due to how MMF2 works. But I'm not an extension developer so I can't answer that.

[Shawn]

Hmm. I was thinking, you have to check resize display to fill window in order for the subapp method to work, otherwise when you maximize the subapp doesn't resize the frame. Since you can't toggle that at runtime, using the workaround I used there is no way to make it toggle at runtime.