[Sugar-devel] Scaling options for sugar-emulator?

[Walter Bender]

try the --dimension option, e.g.,

--dimension 800x600

-walter

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Jim Simmons<nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if the options for sugar-emulator are documented
> somewhere.  I couldn't find anything.
>
> This is what I'm trying to do:  I need to do a desktop recording of
> Sugar in action.  When I try to do this with sugar-emulator running
> with no options the window size is much too large to record
> effectively.  My computer can't keep up, and even if it could the
> final video I'd be making would likely be no larger than 640x480 so
> capturing a larger image should be unnecessary.
>
> This morning I tried running sugar-emulator with several values for
> -i.  The one that worked best was -i 1000x600.  I could capture this
> easily and none of the controls on the screen were chopped off.  (The
> controls were larger than I would have liked but they fit).  I notice
> however that sugar-emulator has other options, including one for
> scale, and I wonder if these options could give me still better
> results.  It is not obvious to me what these options do and how to use
> them and I could not find a man page for sugar-emulator.
>
> The end result needs to be a 640x480 video where everything looks in
> proportion just like a real Sugar screen would look, or as close to
> that as possible.  What sugar-emulator options can I use to achieve
> that?  I am willing to capture at a larger size and resize the video
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
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Walter Bender
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