Re: FLASH: Monitor size and resolution (was virtual paperdoll)

[Dorian Nisinson]

Karin,

	The first thing is to find out what screen resolution your monitor and

you graphics card will support. Some monitor at 15 inches can handle

higher resolutions and some can't. Ditto with graphics cards. If both

your card and your monitor say they can support 800 by 600 then you can

try to change it. Also there is a third factor and that is the color

depth supported for each resolution. All three variables need to be

considered. It can easily be that your monitor/card combination can only

display 800 by 600 at 65,000 colors as opposed to 16 million. There is

also a fourth factor, just to make you really crazy, and that is refresh

rate, which is the number of times per length of time (second?) that the

screen refreshes or redraws itself. This can be a big problem because if

the refresh rate is too slow at a given resolution and color depth then

you get a slight flicker which can be very annoying after a short while.

	I'd look at the documentation that came with your hardware and see what

its capabilities are before making changes.


Dorian


Karin Christensen wrote:

> 

> The following questions remind me of a question I had a while back.

> Someone on the list once mentioned that most people don't know that

> they can change their screen resolution from 640X480 to 800X600.  I

> confess that's me.  I tried once or twice in my settings to change to

> 800X600 and I got a small fish-eyed desktop that windows only let me

> view for 15 seconds then reset to the default.  I have been happy with

> 640X480 but that's probably because I don't know any better.  I have a

> 15" monitor and it is filled edge to edge with image.  Is 800X600 for

> larger monitors?  I figure most things out eventually but I don't get

> this one. Can anyone explain?

> Karin

> beige PC pentium 200

> 

> >What size monitor are you on? Right now I have both

> >dolls I've done (Vampi and Fetish) set to size 100%

> >of the browser. That is good because it gives the

> >viewer a view of 100% of the doll, but it also makes

> >people on small monitors have to strain to see the

> >text and such. What is the solution? I know I should

> >optimize for 640x480 but then I would never have been

> >able to fit a full figure on the screen.

> 

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