Hello everyone. I wrote a single program to test changing window size in Picotron with window, but I'm getting a weird behavior.
I expected cls to clear the entire window, but it only clears a rectangle equivalent to the initial window size.
Has anyone seen this before? What am I doing wrong?
(below: code, then gif with the unexpected behavior)
EDIT: The problem was that I was only updating the height. When I changed the window update to include both height and width it worked correctly.
function _init()
window({
title="Langton Ant",
height=50,
width=200,
})
h = 50
hd = 1
end
function _update()
window({height = h})
if (h > 200) hd = -1
if (h < 50) hd = 1
h = h + hd
end
function _draw()
cls()
end |
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Hi all!
So excited to use the new native window feature. However, when resizing the native windows, I often see the black padding around the edges as the aspect ratio changes. This is undesirable and I would like to request an option to either:
a) disable resizing of my cart's native window
b) lock the aspect ratio during resizing
I've attached an example image. The specifics of my cart have been blurred, but you can get a sense of how Picotron handles resizing.
Thanks!
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