[aegidius]

OK, I have a skin which has a definition for 1920x1080 screens (similar to Estuary) and it all runs quite happily on devices which have differing resolutions and aspect ratios. Such as:
- iPad 2, 1024x768, 4:3
- Surface Pro 3, 2440x16-something, 3:2

All fine except for one thing: coordinates in a python script, in which I want to put something X pixels up from the bottom (scaled to suit the screen).
It needs to work in with other XML controls.

I notice that window.getWidth and getHeight return the native screen sizes unscaled. So I can't use those. But if I use 1080 for the height, hoping that it will get scaled along with everything else, that doesn't work either: things end up about 3/4 of the way down the screen, and I suspect it is the different aspect ratios to blame.

Does automatic scaling work on the width alone? How does Kodi scale skins when the aspect ratios are very different?

[aegidius]

By experimentation, I found that this worked:

Code:

screen_width = 1920
screen_height = (1920 * self.getHeight()) / self.getWidth()

I'm guessing there is some interaction with the resolutions in the <extension> section of addon.xml. All my devices have aspect ratios that are represented there (though at different resolutions) so I suspect that Kodi picks a matching aspect ratio and scales the resolution from there. Since the width is always 1920, only the height needs to change.

Code:

    <extension point="xbmc.gui.skin" debugging="false">
        <res width="1920" height="1440" aspect="4:3" default="false" folder="xml" />
        <res width="1920" height="1280" aspect="3:2" default="false" folder="xml" />
        <res width="1920" height="1200" aspect="16:10" default="false" folder="xml" />
        <res width="1920" height="1080" aspect="16:9" default="true" folder="xml" />
        <res width="2560" height="1080" aspect="21:9" default="false" folder="xml" />
    </extension>

There may be a better way of doing this, so if anyone knows what/if, let me know...