I just refresh the acdsee view of the image and zoom at will. But it would
be nice if the render window wouldn't alter the aspect ratio.


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Kari Kivisalo

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I, too, often maximize the render window.  And have frequently wished it
would preserve the aspect ratio.  Even if you render with the 4/3 ratio, it
is slightly distorted because of the title bar.

I have a few reasons for maximizing the window, BTW.  It makes small
previews larger.  It makes large renders smaller.  I don't have a viewer
(right now, anyway) that will show partial images, so that doesn't work for
me (at the moment).  And I tend to maximize most of my windows, anyway, and
use ALT-Tab to switch between them.  Especially on this ancient monitor I
have at home.

My two cents...

Michael

Thanks POV-Team!

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> to allow the user to select the desired behavior (buggy vs correct) through

The current behaviour is not a bug. Therefore it is not 'buggy', and in fact
is 'correct' (in that it works as designed).

The manner in which the maximize feature works is entirely intentional and is
designed to give the viewer the most information rather than an accurate ren-
dition of the real-sized image.

Consider if they were rendering a 1280x8 pixel image and had a screen resolution
of 1280x1024. Without the vertical stretching they'd get no additional information
from the maximization of the render window. Consider if they were rendering a
2000x16 image on a sysem with a res of 800x600. If aspect ration preservation was
in place, they would actually -lose- vertical resolution by maximizing the image.
Remember that the full screen view is designed to shrink as well as zoom.

Considering that the current behaviour is not a bug, and that it has been the same
since the very first release of POVWIN more than six years ago, the requested change
is very definitely a feature request rather than a bug fix.

That said, I may consider adding it as an option (I really don't want to since it
means re-doing the menu snapshots and help for whatever menu I add it to ...) but
I'll keep it in mind.

-- Chris

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"Chris Cason" <newsadmin@-despam-povray.org> wrote in
news:3b9af166@news.povray.org: 

> That said, I may consider adding it as an option (I really don't want
> to since it means re-doing the menu snapshots and help for whatever
> menu I add it to ...) but I'll keep it in mind.

Suggestion: you could avoid recreating the menu snapshots by enabling the 
feature with an INI option or by a special user action, e.g. right clicking 
on the render window maximize button preserves aspect while left click has 
the normal behavior.

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I think that the best place is to put an item in the Options/Render Window
menu. The default would be the current behaviour, but if the option is checked,
then the other behaviour takes place.

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"Redbeard (MDJohnson)" wrote:
> 
> I have a few reasons for maximizing the window, BTW.  It makes small
> previews larger.  It makes large renders smaller.  I don't have a viewer
> (right now, anyway) that will show partial images, so that doesn't work for
> me (at the moment).

IIRC, Irfanview can do that. It's not a big download (631 KB),
and it's free, so you could give it a try.

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