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Is using a widescreen monitor in portrait orientation more effective for coding?

In the very near future my development setup will be upgraded and part of the deal will be dual monitors (yay!) At least one of the monitors, possibly both, will be widescreen. I've heard of developers using a second monitor, especially a widescreen…
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How to disable or enable letterboxing and adjust UI5 for the widescreen?

I have an UI5-based app (1.66+), which works correctly, but there are huge empty spaces on the left and right sides of the screen (aka letterboxing is on): I want to disable letterboxing to use the entire screen space. I tried the following…
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Allegro 5 game: How do I set a resolution that is appropriate for the aspect ratio of the screen?

Using Allegro 5, how do initialize a game in fullscreen mode so that it respects the format of the screen (widescreen 16:9 vs normal 3:4) al_create_display (w, h) Let's you select any ratio you want. For example you can set 640x480, regardless of…
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Detecting browser client area size on wide screen using javascript

I've been using the following code to detect browser client area width for ages and it wokred 100% with all browsers, including FF, Safari and various versions of IE. However, now when I switched to a new monitor with widescreen resolution…
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How to detect whether a monitor is widescreen in Windows

I need a way to programatically detect whether the monitor is wide or not, in Windows. GetSystemMetrics returns the size of the desktop, which sort of works, but if an user has a widescreen monitor at, say, 1024x768, I'll incorrectly classify it as…
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iOS Simulator run in 568x320

Is it possible to run the iOS simulator iphone as 568x320? Or disable the retina frame buffer? The reason I ask is I'm trying to do a screen capture on the iOS Simulator for a game trailer and running it with the retina display causes huge drops in…
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Batch or VBScript to check if Windows resolution is widescreen

I'm trying to find/write a script (existing script is a batch file, although if VBS I could always call it within batch file) that can detect if the current screen resolution is a widescreen format, so that I can copy the appropriate background…
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Android EditText pinned to bottom of RelativeLayout dissapears on WVGA

I have an EditText and a Button pinned to the bottom of a RelativeLayout. When you click on the EditText, the soft keyboard opens, BUT the EditText and the Button disspear, but in a VERY odd way. They actually are there, because you can type, and…
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Clipping a graphic in memory before drawing on form

I'm trying to use the following code to copy a portion of the screen to a new location on my Windows form. private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { var srcPoint = new Point(0,0); var dstPoint = new…
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How to get widescreen resolution in VBE

I am writing Graphics adopter drivers. I know that VBE provides resolution such as 1024×768 or 800×600 etc. My question is how can I get wide screen resolution such as 1366×768 in VESA BIOS?, Which BIOS function should is use?. Please give me mode…
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MMenu widescreen menu not scrolling

I use MMenu jquery plugin. The menu is working fine except I go to horizontal view where I configured to use the widescreen css, which sets the menu open and not closable. But if the height of the menu isn't enough for the items, scrolling is…
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iOS and Cocos2d: dealing with 16:9 screens and compatibility with 3:2 screens. How can I shift a 3:2 view to the top and use the remaining area?

It seems like that also the new iPhone will be 16:9. No big news. I need to deliver an App that I started one and a half year ago using Cocos2d 2.0 and targeting 3:2 screens. This means that all the graphics developed and drawn has been thought for…
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Widescreen check on normal screen

I work normal screen and I develop some web application. When the application goes on widescreen some of the pages looks weired. Is there any way I can view my web page as it looks in Widescreen on my normal screen. Someway to either change…
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Support 16:9 video on website (Adobe Flash Player & FMIS)

When implementing a video player using Adobe Flex to support 16:9 video, how do we know the video source is a 16:9 video? Because I want to adjust the UI layout according to the aspect of video source? Also, do we have to upgrade version of…
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android: playing widescreen video

I developed an application for playing video.. the code for playing video is here.. public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { super.onCreate(icicle); WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN); setContentView(R.layout.videoview); Intent i…
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