0002237: Crop menu to 4:3 in widescreen resolutions using black bars

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002237	FSSCP	user interface	public	2010-06-23 04:28	2010-06-23 05:43

Reporter	Woolie Wool	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	3.6.12 RC3

Summary	0002237: Crop menu to 4:3 in widescreen resolutions using black bars
Description	This proposed feature would, instead of stretching the menu to fit the screen in a widescreen resolution, draw it in the center of the screen using a 4:3 resolution with the same vertical dimension as the selected resolution (for instance, in 1920x1080, the interface would be rendered in 1440x1080), and draw black bars in the empty space to the left and right. This is the reverse of letterboxing--cropping the sides of a 4:3 image to display correctly in 16:9/16:10. I think this would be a very useful addition as not all all widescreen monitors have the capacity to pillarbox 4:3 resolutions to display correctly.
Additional Information	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarbox
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-06-23 04:28	Woolie Wool	New Issue
2010-06-23 04:32	Woolie Wool	Note Added: 0012126
2010-06-23 05:43	FUBAR-BDHR	Relationship added	has duplicate 0001952
2010-06-23 05:43	FUBAR-BDHR	Status	new => closed
2010-06-23 05:43	FUBAR-BDHR	Resolution	open => duplicate
2010-06-23 14:44	chief1983	Relationship replaced	duplicate of 0001952

Woolie Wool 2010-06-23 04:32 reporter ~0012126	Note that this would crop the interface (which is designed for 4:3 and looks terrible on widescreen monitors) and not the actual gameplay, which would be drawn in the chosen resolution as normal.