'Black Out' of rest of screen

[Necro]

I'm using Hyperspin on an HD tv (or attempting to) and obviously I'm not going to remake every theme. Would it be possible o have a setting where you can use the standard 4:3 dimensions but the rest of the screen is blacked out? It would just make things look much cleaner without a huge hassle.

[BadBoyBill]

HyperSpin will stretch to fit you screen if you want, just set the widescreen dimensions in the in file, it doesnt stretch it that much and sitll looks decent, we tried it on my buddies widescreen tv and it looked great, but if you dont want the stretch then I'm sure I can add something later to make up for that.

[billpa]

What sort of connection are you using to the TV? If its a computer cable ie DVI or VGA then nothing you can do . But if its component, you should be able to correct the aspect ratio on your TV.

[joebells]

I run on a hdtv and I just stretch it. Doesn't look quite as nice :( but as bbb said its not too bad. I would love another option though to maybe reduce the stretch but thats not a big deal. If you are able to at some point in the future that would be great though. I'm not sure what would be the best way to handle it though. I've spent some time thinking about it just didn't want to be a bother. I was thinking if somehow you could make it still put the wheel to the edge of the screen but then kind of move the rest of the artwork towards the center of the screen maybe and not set any stretching on it. So it wouldn't fill the whole screen up but the wheel would still be on one of the edges and nothing would be stretched.

Maybe hypertheme could also have the themer create a widescreen layout too, well not a whole new layout just another little section in the theme xml file. Probably wouldn't take any more than a few seconds to adjust the coordinates and such to fill the widescreen better without needing to stretch. Then hyperspin could use one or the other depending on wether the user typed in a widescreen or a 4:3 resolution.

But as I said not a big deal and I don't know if my ideas would work and if they would be easy or hard to implement.

For you Necro in the meantime you could set it to not run full screen and then just leave it at the normal resolution. and use a black wallpaper. Hyperspin hides your taskbar so that should give you sort of the effect that you want. It'll be up in the left hand side of the screen unfortunately instead of centered but its something.

[Necro]

I think there was some misunderstanding of what I meant....Joebells got it somewhat.

What I'm thinking is similar to letterboxing, rotated 90 degrees (black bars on the side of the normal hyperspin 'full screen' window which appears normal and fine in the center of my screen). The black background would work, but it presents some other issues when using the computer for anything else that I'd like to avoid.

Stretching works, but it seems to introduce considerable slowdown (unstretched speed is fine, stretched is next to unusable).

My connection is via a direct VGA cable, btw.

[joebells]

the next release is going to have an option to turn off the background transistions which might be a big part of the slowdown for you as hs is trying to stretch everything and do the transitions also.

I still hope if its not alot of trouble for a widescreen setting of some sort

[billpa]

No I think I did understand...you are talking about black columns on either side, correct? What is the connection to your HDTV?

[joebells]

My connection is via a direct VGA cable, btw.

:)

[billpa]

crap...missed that line. Okay...I will crawl back into my hole now.

[amchine]

crap...missed that line. Okay...I will crawl back into my hole now.

Haha.