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Resolution 2.0 Universal Binary for Mac Director 11

Resolution Xtra 2.0 for Mac.  Yeah, it’s about time I wrote those words down.  This Xtra has been re-written from the ground up to support Mac Intel version of Director.  

The newest addition to the Resolution Xtra is a more accurate return from get_display_modes() and the inclusion of the #stretched property to the returned list.  The #stretched property simply tells you if a resolution has the ability to be stretched on wide screen monitors.  Here is an example snippet of my MacBook Pro display modes.

gRes = new (Xtra "resolution")
put gRes.get_display_modes()
-- [[1440, 900, 16], [1440, 900, 32], [1152, 720, 16], [1152, 720, 32], 

[1024, 768, 16], [1024, 768, 32], [1024, 768, 16, #stretched], 

[1024, 768, 32, #stretched], [1024, 640, 16], [1024, 640, 32],...

The function set_resolution() now has an extra Boolean parameter called stretch. As you might guess, if a resolution that you want to switch to has a stretch and non-stretched version this Boolean parameter will give you the option set it to stretched mode.

I’m debugging and testing another one of it’s new features.  I will share it with you in my next post.