Widescreen Gaming Forum

I am currently brainstorming a bigger application which would make patching games without widescreen support easier.

For those on this forum that do such things, if you have any specific ideas let me know. I'd like to build a tool specifically for the task of making widescreen mods easier.

Sounds good... Care for some goofproofing ? I can't run the app on Win7 x64: "The application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows"." (Can confirm, no cutie in sight.) Halp.

I tried it on Win7 x64 and Win10 x64: .......because MSVCP140.dll is missing......
after installing Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 x86 i got the same message "The application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".

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Yikes! Sorry for the problems. I ran it on my machine and it was fine. It's the first time I've distributed software this way.

I'll set up a W7 VM and try to re-release today. I'm out from work sick today with what feels like the flu, but I'm fine as long as I keep the fever down.

Updated!

I apologize for putting out something that didn't work. I used QT so I wouldn't be reliant on MS libraries, but I screwed it up anyway! The file size is slightly increased, but I think it's worth the trade off.

Anyway, the updated files are standalone and don't have any dependencies on MSVC. You should uninstall the old version first if you used the installer. Versions past v0.51 beta shouldn't require this.

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Did you make that yourself? Excellent! I'm currently sick, so it's unlikely I'll do any work this weekend. Just updating this today took me forever. I'll examine your concept more closely and may have some questions for you next week.

v0.51 is working great, at least the part I can make sense of. Now I don't have to remember that 3440x1440 is 8EE31840 and 2560x1080 is 26B41740. Cheers !

Glad to hear! I saw a need for some software like this, and I'm happy to hear you're finding it useful. If something is confusing, I want to know so I can fix it.

I'm guessing it's confusion in relation to the sign, exponent, and mantissa parts. I added them for fun/completeness. I won't bore you with the details, and I doubt the fields will be useful for most people, but it was fun implementing them. I was planning on putting some help bubbles to explain how it all works. It's pretty dry stuff and likely only computer science people like myself would be interested, but I like to spread knowledge when I can. I think it's definitely good to know how the hex values are deduced, so I'll add some info on that when I get the chance.

I'm going to add customizable spacing sometime over the next few days so the hex values are easier to read. I wanted to have that feature implemented sooner, but I've been pretty lethargic recently as I've been getting over this bug. I'm almost back to my normal self, and I have lots of free time over the Thanksgiving weekend so I think it'll be implemented before Monday.

It's a pretty simple program, but if there's a feature you want or feel is missing (Including, perhaps, a basic view without having to look at bits), post it here and I may just have time to implement it over the next few days.

By the way... If anyone's a graphics artist and would like to make a dark/grey theme for this and possibly my future applications, I'd much appreciate the help. It takes me a long time to make something look nice, so unless someone volunteers, it's going to be a plain, grey Windows view. I can't pay you obviously (This is free software), but you can have your name featured prominently in the application and on my website.

For completeness:

The horizontal/vertical values are simple the raw hex values of the numbers input in the horizontal/vertical boxes. So if you put 1920 in the vertical box, you'll see the hex value 8007.

Going backwards...

80 07 == 07 80 (Converted to big endian... Normal left to right view that us humans are used to )

0-----7----8--0
4096 256 16 1 (Notice these values... They're base 16. (1*16 = 16), (16*16 = 256), (256*16 = 4096), etc.)

(7 * 256) + (8 * 16) = 1792 + 128 = 1920

And that's all there is to it.

The combined hex field is a bit more complicated. Unfortunately, I can't explain it so briefly. There is an industry standard that some genius figured out called IEEE 754. It uses something called two's complement. The important thing you need to know is if you take 1920/1080, you get 1.77777...8. The hex value of 1.7777...8, according to the IEEE 754 standard, is 39 8E E3 3F. That's where the sign, exponent, and mantissa come into play. If I'm being honest, I learned IEEE 754 at some point in college, but I don't remember how it's calculated and I don't particularly care. It's one of those things that I can always look up in a book or online.

To show how irrelevant it actually is to know, I wrote this program, which perfectly represents IEEE 754, without referencing the specification.

Just want to say I've started some preliminary work on this. When I say preliminary, I mean I'm reading a book on the Win32 API and haven't written any code. The literature on the low level Windows API is slim, and what is widely considered the "best" book is from 1998.

The work involved is pretty significant and very low-level. It's a big enough project that I'll have to design everything up front to make it manageable, so I'll likely write a mock GUI for feedback in the coming weeks.

As for ResHex, if you have any feature requests for usability, let me know. I meant to start this a couple weeks ago, but I'll be adding customizable spacing tonight so hex values are easier to read. This is just a calculator, so it's likely it'll be merged into the bigger project at some point.

Version 0.61 is finally out!

Sorry for the delay. I had it finished last weekend but had issues creating an installer that would automatically resolve dependencies. This guy is good to go now, though!

I'm also looking into why Chrome is giving warnings when downloading. The file is flagged as "Not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous." I believe I have that fixed, but not sure how long it takes Google to do their thing.

Also make me wonder if Google is tracking everything I download. Hrm...

FYI I just got the same warning in IE. No warning in FF.

Thanks for the response! I've tested it in all three major browsers now, and I haven't had the problem anymore.

Little while since I've been around, but I've been pretty busy over the past month at work, logging a lot of hours at the end of a project. Using a PC when I get home has been pretty low on my list Things are starting to settle down now, so I'm about ready to throw myself back into my personal projects.

Can someone reupload this somewhere? website is down.

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Thanks!

I cant seem to get the program to install. Was wondering if anyone knew the Hex value for 1520X1440

The hex values are 5F0 (width) and 5A0 (height).

Use this if you don't have the program.

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