RESOLVED] Resizing main window (windowed mode)

[MulletLife]

I'm running PinballX on a 32" screen mounted vertically. The screen is split between a DMD and the playfield.
In the actual frontend, I'm having difficulty having the main window fill the screen. I'm in windowed mode, I can get my vertical portion of the PF (1000pixels) but no matter what value I place for the width, it seems to be locked and I can see about 2 inches of desktop on either side. 
Is PBX locked to a certain aspect ratio?
Otherwise I'm sure this is user error but have not found out the issue yet. 
Any help is appreciated. 
Thanks

[Draco1962]

Please attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files for the team to review. Thanks.

[MulletLife]

Thanks for the reply. I will get the internet going on my vertical cabinet to make the pasting easier. Will get to this tonight. Thanks again for the help. 

For what its worth, I've tried with the newest version and an older version. Both seem to lock an aspect ratio. They also don't seem to allow me to position the DMD properly. I would even settle (if needs be) for the Playfield to be full screen but with a forced DMD overlay. I've tried desktop mode, I've tried going from landscape to portrait in windows. I am well versed in PinballX as I have set up 3 of my own cabs (3 screens). For some reason, a Single Screen Setup with dynamic marquee (on the same screen) seems to elude me. 

Currently 6:19 PST, I expect to have the logs posted by 8:00pst.
Thanks again. 

[MulletLife]

1 hour ago, Draco1962 said:

Please attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files for the team to review. Thanks.

Files have been attached. From what I can see, it looks like the aspect ratio is locked. I can size my window vertically and it automatically adjusts my horizontal size. 
So likely I'm looking for a way to override the aspect locking or, the ability to affix the DMD overlay on top of the playfield/frontend with the frontend maintained as the active window. The former is preferred. 
Thanks for any info you can offer. 

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Tom Speirs]

Windowed mode is simply not designed for that. Really the only reason windowed mode exists is to assist me when developing and troubleshooting user issues. You have an unusual configuration you are trying to support there. Im not saying its not possible but your trying to do something I have not even tried to support or do.

[MulletLife]

7 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

Windowed mode is simply not designed for that. Really the only reason windowed mode exists is to assist me when developing and troubleshooting user issues. You have an unusual configuration you are trying to support there. Im not saying its not possible but your trying to do something I have not even tried to support or do.

Hi Tom 

Thanks so much for the reply. So for people who only have single screen setups, they are only able to see Playfield Frontend media? There's no option for them to see DMD, Topper, or Backglass on top of their playfield video? I'm surprised with all the single screen support in vpx that its not available in the front end (unless I'm doing something wrong).

I've seen people looking for support on single screen dynamic marquee setups in the Hyperspin forum for over 5 years. They have borderless window mode, but again a locked aspect ratio. 

Is it overly difficult to unlock the aspect ratio of windowed mode or better yet, have it a borderless window mode? Or at the least allow for the other media to overlay on top of the Playfield media?
 

Regardless, thanks for a great product. I'm refusing the switch to pinup. It would be nice to get this vertical machine working as intended in PBX though. 

[Tom Speirs]

It should work no problem fullscreen as long as not in exclusive mode now I think about it. Its just deliberately hard coded not to as it assumes you've made a mistake if your trying to put it on the playfield. It should just be a little code change override. Ill post back shortly. Cheers.

[MulletLife]

13 minutes ago, Tom Speirs said:

It should work no problem fullscreen as long as not in exclusive mode now I think about it. Its just deliberately hard coded not to as it assumes you've made a mistake if your trying to put it on the playfield. It should just be a little code change override. Ill post back shortly. Cheers.

That's great to hear. Thanks so much for looking into it!

[Tom Speirs]

Should work perfectly in 4.30 available in about 10 minutes.

Enjoy.

 

Set the monitors to 1 and ensure you are using fullscreen windowed (default).

[MulletLife]

19 minutes ago, Tom Speirs said:

Should work perfectly in 4.30 available in about 10 minutes.

Enjoy.

 

Set the monitors to 1 and ensure you are using fullscreen windowed (default).

I will test this out and report back. Thank you very much for all your great work Tom!

[MulletLife]

Thank you so much. The DMD is overlaying exactly as expected. Greatly appreciated!