POS program designed for 800 x 600 but monitor's native is 1068 x 768

[slicksilver]

I can lower the resolution of the monitor to 800 x 600 but would like to know if the program will look like it was originally intended to do.

 

[ViRGE]

The monitor will have to scale the image up to the monitor's native resolution. Basically it's going to be a bit blurry.

 

[slicksilver]

you mean the program will have to scale up to the monitor's resolution which is 1024 x 768? It doesn't scale up but runs as a window at 800 x 600. Now if I scale down the 1024 x 768 native monitor screen to 800 x 600 so that I can use the program full screen will it look different? scale up blurry...scale down what?

 

[TemjinGold]

I'm guessing it's much faster and easier to just try it than to ask...

 

[slicksilver]

I'm guessing it's much faster and easier to just try it than to ask...

I could have done that if I had the monitor. Its a touchscreen monitor.

 

[tynopik]

you mean the program will have to scale up to the monitor's resolution which is 1024 x 768?

no, the monitor itself will do the scaling

Now if I scale down the 1024 x 768 native monitor screen to 800 x 600 so that I can use the program full screen will it look different?

you're not doing any scaling, you're sending 800x600 to the monitor and the monitor will scale the 800x600 up to it's native 1024x768

scale up blurry...scale down what?

there's 2 things that can happen:
1. the monitor will scale 800x600 up to 1024x768
- positive: the program will take up the whole screen
- negative: the screen will be somewhat blurry
2. the monitor won't do any scaling at all
- positive: the program will be sharp (no blurriness)
- negative: there will be a black border around the edge that totals 224 pixels wide and 168 pixels high

you MAY be able to configure the monitor to tell it which way to do it

 

[tweakboy]

Whats up with this low res. What POS app you talking about ? Usually you wouldnt have to do a thing. if you use a 4:3 then the picture is going to get stretched possibly

 

[slicksilver]

It wasn't meant to be piece of s*** but point of sale. Its a drycleaner's pos app.

Thanks all

 

[deimos3428]

It wasn't meant to be piece of s*** but point of sale. Its a drycleaner's pos app.

Thanks all

Acronym overloading FTW!

 

[wanderer27]

I take it that this Monitor is an LCD and not a CRT?

If it's a CRT it'll just switch modes to 800 x 600, otherwise it'll do as tynopik said.


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