What do I give to screenDPI to get consistently-sized text? about advanced-layout HOT 6 CLOSED

Under the hood, it uses Capabilities.screenDPI, and I'm guessing that's the problem.

According to word of Joshua, Capabilities.screenDPI "roughly estimates the density you might want to apply to your UI," because "users with higher resolution screens may expect things to look smaller."

He also mentions that Display.dpi calculates it as accurately as possible, with no adjustments made after the fact.

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Just added an option to choose between the two: c860b19

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@player-03 wow, thank you! What version of lime do I need? I'm trying with openfl 8.4.1 and lime 7.0.0 and getting this error:

/Users/matt/lib/advanced-layout/com/player03/layout/Scale.hx:265: characters 46-57 : Class<lime.system.Display> has no field dpi

Here's everything:

$ haxelib list
actuate: [1.8.7]
advanced-layout: 0.7.0 [dev:/Users/matt/lib/advanced-layout]
box2d: [1.2.3]
haxeui-core: [0.0.4]
haxeui-openfl: [git]
haxeui: [1.8.21]
hscript: [2.2.0]
hxcpp: 3.4.188 [4.0.4]
layout: [1.2.1]
lime-samples: [6.2.0]
lime: 2.9.1 6.4.0 [7.0.0]
openfl-samples: [6.0.0]
openfl: 3.6.1 8.2.2 8.3.0 8.4.0 [8.4.1]
sqlite: [1.0.9]

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Oops! Somehow I didn't notice that the variable wasn't static. This should be fixed as of 6f5048d.

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I think I'm not calling screenDPI(...) correctly. Neither changing baseDPI nor smart seems to have any effect. Am I calling screenDPI(...) on the right instance in my code?

import layout.Layout;
...
Layout.stageLayout.scale.screenDPI(Std.int(Capabilities.screenDPI));

For reference, here's what I'm seeing:

screenDPI(144, false)

screenDPI(144, true)

screenDPI(72, false)

screenDPI(72, true)

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Layout.stageLayout.scale.screenDPI() is correct, but you definitely don't want to pass Capabilities.screenDPI as the first argument. Since it divides Capabilities.screenDPI by whatever baseDPI is, you'll end up with a scale of 1 no matter what. (Also, I just noticed that your original code does the same thing. Should have looked more closely!)

Any of your other four examples ought to work, or at least ought to have some effect. I mean, they worked for me when I added the following code to the end of DisplayingABitmap's Main class:

//Uncomment for a smaller bitmap:
//Layout.stageLayout.scale.screenDPI(144);

//Uncomment for a larger bitmap:
//Layout.stageLayout.scale.screenDPI(72);

bitmap.simpleScale();
bitmap.centerX();
bitmap.centerY();

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