EPrime display settings for widescreen monitors

[Kaitlyn T]

Hello,

I'm having a similar problem. I was wondering if anyone had an answer to 
Josh's original question, as to whether there is a general setting in 
Windows that can be changed to fix display resolution in E-Prime, rather 
than changing each script individually. To maintain consistency across 
multiple laptops, we chose a display setting that resulted in a square 
display with black space on the right and left side of the screen. This was 
working fine on a normal and widescreen monitor, but we recently updated 
the normal laptop and now the E-Prime display is stretched out to fill the 
whole screen. The best solution we've found so far is to choose "Yes" for 
"Match desktop resolution at runtime." However, this is problematic for two 
reasons: 1) although the images are no longer distorted, they are not the 
same size as they were with the previous settings, which is a problem with 
consistency, and 2) this solution involves changing settings in ~25 E-Prime 
files, and having slightly different versions of the files on different 
computers. I think there must be a general Windows setting that controls 
this issue, seeing as this only changed when we updated the Windows system. 
Note we did not change the OS (XP), but just changed hard drive and RAM.

If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it!

Kaitlyn

On Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:32:18 PM UTC-4, Speech Perception Research 
Lab NYU wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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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