[timothyskinner]

 copperpen, on 20 January 2014 - 05:44 AM, said:

Hi Tim

The definition of squashed or stretched depends on your personal point of view. In screen terms 4:3 is basically a "square" image. Put the same image onto a 16:9 screen and the image becomes stretched across the screen, or squashed in the vertical.

Far as route building goes, those windows are not full screen and thus would not have that same distortion.

Hi Mervyn,

Yes, exactly. Lowry-like may not translate too well to Hungarian for Peter so I've edited my post and put in "vertically".

And yes, the editor is, of course, 4:3... and the screen in Paint Shop Pro... and my new young woman doctor...

I would like to check with a geometric test though. It is disconcerting that I must have blythely (that word might fool his translator too) carried on for years and only realised when ORails looks so odd to me.

Timothy

[gpz]

Assume I speak better English than you Hungarian, so no need for mocking. Anyway, just look on a steam locomotive directly from front, and you should see its boiler as a circle.

[James Ross]

I have seen, recently, that switching between a 4:3 window and 16:9 fullscreen does sometimes not realise the aspect ratio has changed, which results in things being squashed or stretched. It's something I'll get to at some point, if nobody beats me to it. :D (Hint: It's probably to do with IsScreenChanged IIRC.)

[timothyskinner]

 gpz, on 20 January 2014 - 06:32 AM, said:

Assume I speak better English than you Hungarian, so no need for mocking. Anyway, just look on a steam locomotive directly from front, and you should see its boiler as a circle.

No mock intended Peter, it is the English sense of humour.
And, thank you for your posts which have helped me figure out what is going on.

Timothy