[mythtv] smushed left side of epg

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Mar 12 14:15:09 EST 2003


On Wednesday 12 March 2003 01:32 pm, Alex Wilbur wrote:
> I can live with distortion. It's the squishing I have a problem with
> ;-).
>
> I don't see why the resolution really comes into it. In all the UI code
> I've ever written in the past (admittedly, its not for the PC) the only
> time I'd expect it to squish is if the horizontal width is insufficient
> to contain the target data. This clearly isn't the case at 1280x1024.
> Perhaps I'm missing your point? I would personally expect the channel
> text (far left hand side) to be displayed in its entirety (no squishing)
> and then the width of the boxes to represent the various durations to
> scale accordingly?

The sizes for the various fonts get scaled depending on the vertical 
resolution.  At 1280x1024, you're scaling the vertical resolution up more 
than you're scaling the width, so the fonts are slightly too large for the 
width of the area they're to be displayed in.

Isaac


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