EPrime display settings for widescreen monitors

[David McFarlane]

Josh,

What version of E-Prime do you use?  If using EP2, please note the 
following statement that I got from PST Web Support when I 
asked:  "E-Prime 2.0 allows any resolution supported by your video 
card. The suggestions in the dropdown menus do use typical 4:3 
values, but you can type in any other value you want to use provided 
they are supported by your video card."  As far as I can tell, this 
feature has still not been publicly documented.

So, try setting your Display resolution to 1366x768, ignoring the 
dropdown suggestions.  E-Prime should properly fill the screen and 
use properly square-shaped pixels.  Or just try using "Match desktop 
resolution at runtime" = Yes, which in this case should achive the same effect.

Hope that helps.

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At 10/4/2012 01:32 PM Thursday, Speech Perception Research Lab NYU wrote:
>Our lab just got a new experimental laptop which has a slightly 
>different screen size than our other 2.  We run about 6 different 
>experimental tasks in EPrime on all 3 of these machines, and when we 
>use the new one with the wider monitor, all of the images and text 
>get stretched horizontally.  I understand that I can fix the problem 
>by changing the properties for each image on EPrime, but I'm 
>wondering if there is some more general setting that I can change 
>for the one computer so that images won't be stretched and I won't 
>need to change individual settings within each script.  Our old 
>laptops use a display setting of 1024x768 pixels, and this new one 
>uses 1366x768.  Changing the display settings for the computer 
>itself doesn't fix the problem, so I wonder if I can do it within 
>EPrime.  In PowerPoint, for example, when presentations are viewed 
>fullscreen on a widescreen monitor, it fills the sides with blank 
>space so that everything can be done on a standard display size and 
>avoid stretching.  I'm wondering if I there is an equivalent setting 
>within EPrime.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Josh

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