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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: unix X11 3.7 beta 25 (source) preview size
Date: 1 Mar 2008 05:02:05
Message: <47c9299d$1@news.povray.org>
Hello, nearly a cosmetic issue.

On 3.7 betat 25 (when it works... boost issue on gentoo ~amd64 ? 
vfessession::Initialize get out with "Timed out..." message, another 
story)... ok, back to the cosmetic (and hopefully easily fixable):

I rendered a 1600x1200 picture on my 1600x1200 display, running gnome as 
windows manager (default gnome, no fancy beryl/compiz/fuzion).

I have two bars: one at the top, one at the bottom.
Povray performs a nice reduction of the rendering window at 93% (that's 
what the title bar says)... but with the title on top of the window 
(Clearlook theme/appearance), the rendering window does not fit in the 
visible area, a few lines at the bottom are hidden by the bar.)

If the reduction was intended to display the whole picture, I believe it 
failed (by a few lines, but nevertheless).

My top bar is 32 pixels, my bottom bar is 25 pixels.
Pushing away one of the bar is a way to see the whole picture, but I do 
not intend to set "autohide" on them, and it's a bit cumbersome.

If you need more information, please ask.


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From: Nicolas Calimet
Subject: Re: unix X11 3.7 beta 25 (source) preview size
Date: 1 Mar 2008 09:26:28
Message: <47c96794$1@news.povray.org>
Le Forgeron wrote:
> Povray performs a nice reduction of the rendering window at 93% (that's 
> what the title bar says)... but with the title on top of the window 
> (Clearlook theme/appearance), the rendering window does not fit in the 
> visible area

	The code that handles display scaling is marked as "wrong and ugly";
see UnixSDLDisplay::Show() in unix/disp_sdl.cpp.  We clearly need a fix
there  :-)

	- NC


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: unix X11 3.7 beta 25 (source) preview size
Date: 3 Mar 2008 02:47:15
Message: <47cbad03$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Calimet schrieb:
> 
>     The code that handles display scaling is marked as "wrong and ugly";
> see UnixSDLDisplay::Show() in unix/disp_sdl.cpp.  We clearly need a fix
> there  :-)

Yes, i remember. - BTW if anyone is interested in translating the old 
plain X preview to the new system this would be great.  The SDL preview 
is mostly a provisonal solution - while nice in theory SDL is fairly 
complicated and can be a pain to build and link to on more unusual 
platforms.

-- Christoph


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