widescreen

Is using a widescreen monitor in portrait orientation more effective for coding?

In the very near future my development setup will be upgraded and part of the deal will be dual monitors (yay!) At least one of the monitors, possibly both, will be widescreen. I've heard of developers using a second monitor, especially a widescreen monitor, in portrait mode. It allows for many more lines on the screen (albeit narrower...

Allegro 5 game: How do I set a resolution that is appropriate for the aspect ratio of the screen?

Using Allegro 5, how do initialize a game in fullscreen mode so that it respects the format of the screen (widescreen 16:9 vs normal 3:4) al_create_display (w, h) Let's you select any ratio you want. For example you can set 640x480, regardless of the screen size. But it will look weird on a widescreen monitor. How do you know which ra...

How to detect whether a monitor is widescreen in Windows

I need a way to programatically detect whether the monitor is wide or not, in Windows. GetSystemMetrics returns the size of the desktop, which sort of works, but if an user has a widescreen monitor at, say, 1024x768, I'll incorrectly classify it as non-wide. GetDeviceCaps has similar problems with HORZRES and VERTRES, and even HORZSIZE...

Detecting browser client area size on wide screen using javascript

I've been using the following code to detect browser client area width for ages and it wokred 100% with all browsers, including FF, Safari and various versions of IE. However, now when I switched to a new monitor with widescreen resolution (1280x800) this code fails on IE8. It reports clientwidth of 1024 !!!??? Any ideas how to get the ...

Widescreen check on normal screen

Hi, I work normal screen and I develop some web application. When the application goes on widescreen some of the pages looks weired. Is there any way I can view my web page as it looks in Widescreen on my normal screen. Someway to either change resolution for only IE or is there any way (add-on in IE) that i can change resolution for o...

What is the best monitor for coding?

I'm looking for a wide-screen monitor that can be easily moved up and down, with good colors and resolution. Can anyone recommend a specific model or brand that helps coding? I'm temporarily using a ViewSonic HDMI 1080p, are there better solutions out there that cost less than $350? ...

Setting up my webpages on a widescreen monitor may have caused me to create inaccurate div positions

Hi, I recently put together a website exclusively using a computer with a wide screen monitor. Later, When opening the same pages online using a computer with a smaller sized monitor, I suddenly noticed that all the div positions are completely out of place. My question is how to use the widescreen monitor to continue to develop my webpa...