Introduce option to control size and position of grill

[SmedleyB]

Currently the backglass and grill are controlled as a single unit within screenres.txt. It would be nice if size and position of the grill could be controlled independently so that proper aspect ratio could be maintained for both backglass and grill images on a user's display.

[JockeJarre]

The idea is to replace the (but still allow) screenres.txt with some kind of xml format, which would allow more structured configuration per part of the backglass. What do you think, how should that work?

[SmedleyB]

I think that would be nice and easy to use. I have no problems with creating a custom screenres definition for each table, but having the labeling of each setting that xml would allow for will be nice. Having a starting x/y position for the grill that's relative to the top left of the backglass would be nice and allow users to dial in a realistic aspect ratio if their screens allow for it.

[JockeJarre]

this is something I sketched a couple of months ago.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <ScreenRes> <Playfield xsize="800" ysize="600"/> <Backglass xpos="0" ypos="0" xsize="800" ysize="600" monitor="1" /> <DMD xpos="700" ypos="300" xsize="600" ysize="130" flipy="0" /> <Background xpos="0" ypos="0" xsize="800" ysize="600" path="C:\...\bild.png" /> </ScreenRes>

it looks better here though

[SmedleyB]

Looks like that will get the job done. I might be in the minority of users, but I prefer to not to worry about assigning monitor numbers and instead just define everything across all available pixels on however many monitors are available.