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rick.ca:

--- Quote from: mgpw4me@yahoo.com on October 24, 2010, 01:58:00 am ---The covers can be scaled...
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I don't think so. The following...

    <section>
      <row>
        <column valign="top" halign="center" width="1200" space="0">
          <section space="0">
            <border shape="none" />
            <row height="220">
              <column space="0" width="1200">
                <cdcover autosize="true" stretch="true" />
              </column>
            </row>
          </section>
        </column>
      </row>
    </section>

...results in the first attached image, rather than the expected second. The banner size is 1200 x 220.


--- Quote from: katleeh on October 24, 2010, 02:41:34 am ---Using refresh doesn't work.
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You're using Refresh rather than Skin refresh. It's only available if you add it to your toolbar or configure it as a hotkey. See Preferences>Appearance.

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mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
Yes, I seem to remember hitting a "finite limit" on the display size of covers.  "stretch" doesn't appear to work, but autosize does, up to about 320px.

I suspect the limit is by design, as compared to a size limit in the database.  The database fields that store movie / people images are the same size, and changing the image quality setting has no effect (which should result in a larger image if the database were the road block).

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I suspect the limit is by design, as compared to a size limit in the database.
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Correct. The database always saves the original image, as can be seen if any image type is opened in the viewer. I think the limit is more by exception than design. Originally, posters and photos could not be resized as they can now. It seems some abilities were added to those types and not the others—because that's what was requested. Note posters and photos (and their imagelists) are handled one way, screen shot, front cover and CD cover containers another. So it's understandable the change made to one type wouldn't be implemented for the other.

Maybe nostra will make the same change (enabling stretch, it seems) for froncover and cdcover. That might be easier than modifying the skin manual to make it clear the parameter doesn't work for these images. ;D

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