Windows size issues with WinRT app

PaulH

I've just rebuilt an app for the Windows store, using Gideros 2015.12, trying to solve an issue where the customer can't see the bottom of the screen on a 768 pixel high laptop display. While the app no longer crashes if I try to resize the window on a Windows 10 machine as it did before 2015.12, there still seem to be some serious problems. All the mouse clicks act as though they're happening significantly higher than where they are, and the bottom of the game content is cropped off. It's as though the display is pushed down by 60 or 80 pixels, but clicks are not.

Any ideas?

Paul

john26

I actually fixed this just recently:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/1ffe61ec62dc5d1f7ce70972f62641140bcc5ee0

The problem occurs when Windows 8.1 apps run on Windows 10 devices and only when the device is low res like 1366x768. The fix will be in the next release.

However, if you don't want to wait, I think you can fix it at your end. If you export the project then replace winrt.cpp with the attached file it should fix it. You can see I have added the variable scaleFactor (if you do a diff with the regular winrt.cpp you can see what has changed). Note: I haven't tested this code so you may need to fiddle with it!

PaulH

Fantastic! Thank you so much! I've just published an update with that file and it's working much better. The only remaining issue I see is that if you reduce the size of the window too much, relative to the screen resolution, it rotates the content 90 degrees counterclockwise, as though changing orientation on a mobile device. That's not a major problem as the game is entirely playable even on a 1024x768 display now, but I wanted to let you know about that.

Thanks again!

Paul

john26

That's great to hear! Yes, the issue of rotating when you resize the window exists in both WinRT and Win32 so we need to fix it so that both behave like the Windows Desktop export (with Qt). It seems the best solution is to maintain orientation even when the user resizes the window on a desktop computer. See this issue for further discussion:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/issues/210