OESF Portables Forum
Everything Else => General Support and Discussion => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds => Topic started by: b2bpro on November 20, 2004, 02:28:15 pm
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how do you get a backgroup picture that looks good in both orientations? I've tried several landscape type pics on my 860 - even high res 1600*1200 and they work fine in landscape, but when you switch to portrait mode they always have the top of the pic reproduced below the main pic.
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I think you can "oversize" the pics so that in each orientation, the Z will not tile the pics. I have a 5500, so am not sure about the 860's use of the background pics.
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I don't see where you can "oversize" the picture. Some of the bitmaps are way bigger than 640*480 but it seems to resize them to fit the landscape 640 by 480 and then it uses that smaller picture and tiles it in portrait.
bummer
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The only thing that works well on both landscape & portrait are textures that are tiled. Images just don't work well as well.
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Make the image square (640x640) that way there will be no tiling - the old TKC rom used to have a cool backgroung image that looked nice either way.
Stu
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clamshell at least will resize anything not 640x480 or 480x640. Even if you keep the proportions the same, it will be distorted. I find the best pictures (excluding tiles) are the ones that are a monchrome background with objects not touching the sides. The clamshells tile images by default.
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My bad, I didn't catch all the info in your post. . .
My experience is only with the 5500 series. I can't afford an 860 yet (still saving and lusting though).
V-Man