ZScript Status bar scaling issues

[Major Cooke]

Here you go: https://imgur.com/a/WgVbd
Resolutions are 1280x1024, 1280x960, and 1600x900.

So there's this issue with D4D (original post) where scaling is a bit broken. All I tried to do is port half of the status bars over and it's sticking out over the edges on some of these resolutions.

I did whatever I could to just outright mirror the old sbarinfo where possible without getting carried away with extra features.

After discussing this with ZZYZX, he and I believe this is a potential bug.

This is stuff that's part of HUD_StatusBar state. The fullscreen stuff hasn't been ported yet.

[Graf Zahl]

Like always: Provide a SMIPLE and CONTAINED example WAD. Do I have to repeat every time that D4D is too big for debugging unrelated things?

[Major Cooke]

Okay, I didn't double check my post and completely forgot to mention I was actually working on one.

[Major Cooke]

Here you go. Simply load the game and choose the 1280 x 1024 resolution.

(Cursed 256kb file limit... The damn file is only 278kb, sheesh.)

[Graf Zahl]

It looks like you are drawing outside the virtual screen that's being used for the status bar. Of course that will get cut off on anything narrower than 16:10.

[Major Cooke]

I have no idea what I should do to properly fix this though. Some suggested I use fullscreenoffsets, but will that work there without clobbering everything? Or am I going to have to do something more drastic?

[Graf Zahl]

You have to test the layout on 4:3 (i.e. everything needs to say within (0, 0, max-x, max-y) or if you absolutely need to have a 16:9 layout check the actual ratio and use different layouts. But if you create a 16:9 layout that goes beyond the edges of the virtual screen it won't work properly on 4:3.

[Nash]

Is it not possible to retrieve the absolute screen left/right/top/bottom? In Unreal, those are called anchors.

That way, it doesn't matter what aspect ratio the user uses.

[Major Cooke]

That would be a godsend.

[Graf Zahl]

Is it not possible to retrieve the absolute screen left/right/top/bottom? In Unreal, those are called anchors.

That way, it doesn't matter what aspect ratio the user uses.

The entire system is aspect ratio independent. But if you draw outside of the virtual screen's coordinates you may also draw outside of the screen if the scaling factor is high enough.

[Major Cooke]

Is there a function to detect whether we're in certain aspect ratios or do I just have to manually detect that myself? I've, uh... never really done it manually before I admit so not sure what to do there.

[_mental_]

There is Screen.GetAspectRatio() function.