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When porting existing applications to Maemo, it is sometimes necessary to scale a fixed-size interface to the target screen size. For example, many games written for a specific gaming platform assume the screen size of that platform. Scaling the interface allows you to port the application without completely rewriting it.

You can scale a window with [http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/hildon/hildon-HildonAnimationActor.html HildonAnimationActor]. <code>HildonAnimationActor</code> creates an overlay window that can be positioned anywhere on the screen and scaled to any size. The following code demonstrates how to embed a fixed-size <code>GtkWidget</code>, <code>main</code>, into a <code>HildonAnimationActor</code>.

In this code snippet, window is a top-level <tt>[http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/hildon/HildonWindow.html HildonWindow]</tt>. It assumes that the original size of <code>main</code> is 320&times;240, and that you want to scale the window to 800&times;424.

<source lang="c">
actor = HILDON_ANIMATION_ACTOR (hildon_animation_actor_new());
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (actor), main);
gtk_window_resize (GTK_WINDOW (actor), 320, 240);
hildon_animation_actor_set_position (actor, 0, 56);
hildon_animation_actor_set_parent (actor, window);
hildon_animation_actor_set_scale (actor, 2.5, 1.77);
gtk_widget_show_all (GTK_WIDGET (actor));
</source>

This will scale <code>main</code> and display it over <code>window</code>. <code>HildonAnimationActor</code>, however, does not accept any input events, so all keyboard and mouse events will pass directly through to <code>window</code>. To make the application respond to user input, you must capture the relevant events on window and pass them to main. For events which have associated screen coordinates, such as mouse clicks, you must transform the coordinates based on the scaling factor.

The following code demonstrates how to capture button press and release events from a pointing device. On Maemo-based devices, this corresponds to the press and release of a tap on the screen.

<source lang="c">
static void
window_button_proxy (GtkWidget *widget,
		     GdkEventButton *event,
		     GtkWidget *proxy)
{
  GdkEventButton *newev = (GdkEventButton *) gdk_event_copy ((GdkEvent *) event);
  newev->window = proxy->window;
  newev->x = (gint) (newev->x / 2.5);
  newev->y = (gint) (newev->y / 1.77);
  gdk_event_put ((GdkEvent *) newev);
}
g_signal_connect (window, "button-press-event",
                  G_CALLBACK (window_button_proxy), main);
g_signal_connect (window, "button-release-event",
                  G_CALLBACK (window_button_proxy), main);
</source>

In this example, we've scaled the original application by different scale factors on the horizontal and vertical axes. To maintain the aspect ratio, you may need to use less than the entire available screen space. In this case, you will need to do more sophisticated coordinate transformations in your event-handling code.

Finally, the following code implements a simple that draws circles for button presses and releases. It scales this widget with <code>HildonAnimationActor</code> and redirects button press and release events to the widget

<source lang="c">
/*
window-scaler.c
gcc -Wall -o window-scaler window-scaler.c \
  `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 hildon-1 cairo`
*/

#include <cairo.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <glib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <hildon/hildon.h>

static gint X_SIZE = 320;
static gint Y_SIZE = 240;

static gint X_POS = 0;
static gint Y_POS = 56;

static gint X_FULL = 800;
static gint Y_FULL = 424;

static gdouble X_SCALE = 2.5;  /* X_FULL / X_SIZE */
static gdouble Y_SCALE = 1.77; /* Y_FULL / Y_SIZE */

/** Simple drawing widget **/

static void
drawing_button_event (GtkWidget *drawing,
		      GdkEventButton *event,
		      cairo_t *context)
{
  cairo_new_path (context);
  cairo_move_to (context, event->x + 5, event->y);
  cairo_arc (context, event->x, event->y, 5, 0, 2 * M_PI);
  if (event->type == GDK_BUTTON_PRESS)
    cairo_set_source_rgb (context, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
  else
    cairo_set_source_rgb (context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
  cairo_fill (context);
}

static void
drawing_realize (GtkWidget *drawing,
		 gpointer user_data)
{
  cairo_t *context;
  context = gdk_cairo_create (GDK_DRAWABLE (drawing->window));
  gtk_widget_add_events (drawing,
			 GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK);
  g_signal_connect (drawing, "button-press-event",
		    G_CALLBACK (drawing_button_event), context);
  g_signal_connect (drawing, "button-release-event",
		    G_CALLBACK (drawing_button_event), context);
}

static GtkWidget *
get_drawing_widget (void)
{
  GtkWidget *drawing = gtk_drawing_area_new ();
  GtkRequisition *req;
  g_signal_connect (drawing, "realize",
		    G_CALLBACK (drawing_realize), NULL);
  return drawing;
}

/** Test application **/

static void
window_button_proxy (GtkWidget *widget,
		     GdkEventButton *event,
		     GtkWidget *proxy)
{
  GdkEventButton *newev = (GdkEventButton *) gdk_event_copy ((GdkEvent *) event);
  newev->window = proxy->window;
  newev->x = (gint) (newev->x / X_SCALE);
  newev->y = (gint) (newev->y / Y_SCALE);
  gdk_event_put ((GdkEvent *) newev);
}

static void
button_clicked (GtkWidget *widget, HildonAnimationActor *actor)
{
  static gboolean fullscreen = FALSE;

if (fullscreen) {
    hildon_animation_actor_set_scale (actor, 1.0, 1.0);
    fullscreen = FALSE;
  }
  else {
    hildon_animation_actor_set_scale (actor, X_SCALE, Y_SCALE);
    fullscreen = TRUE;
  }
}

int
main (int argc,
      char *argv[])
{
  HildonAnimationActor *actor;
  GtkWidget *window, *drawing;
  HildonProgram *program;
  GdkColor pink = { .red = 0xffff, .green = 0x9999, .blue = 0x9999 };

gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

window = hildon_stackable_window_new ();
  gtk_widget_modify_bg (GTK_WIDGET (window), GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &pink);
  g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event",
		    G_CALLBACK (gtk_main_quit), NULL);
  gtk_widget_add_events (window,
			 GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK);

actor = HILDON_ANIMATION_ACTOR (hildon_animation_actor_new());
  gtk_widget_add_events (GTK_WIDGET (actor),
			 GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK);
  gtk_window_resize (GTK_WINDOW (actor), X_SIZE, Y_SIZE);
  hildon_animation_actor_set_position (actor, X_POS, Y_POS);
  hildon_animation_actor_set_parent (actor, GTK_WINDOW (window));
  hildon_animation_actor_set_scale (actor, X_SCALE, Y_SCALE);

drawing = get_drawing_widget ();
  gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (actor), drawing);

g_signal_connect (window, "button-press-event",
		    G_CALLBACK (window_button_proxy), drawing);
  g_signal_connect (window, "button-release-event",
		    G_CALLBACK (window_button_proxy), drawing);

gtk_widget_show_all (GTK_WIDGET (actor));
  gtk_widget_show_all (GTK_WIDGET (window));

gtk_main ();
  return 0;
}
</source>

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@@ Line 61: / Line 61: @@
 static gint Y_POS = 56;
-/* Using 800x424 as fullscreen */
+static gint X_FULL = 800;
-static gdouble X_SCALE = 2.5;  /* width / X_SIZE */
+static gint Y_FULL = 424;
-static gdouble Y_SCALE = 1.77; /* height / Y_SIZE */
+static gdouble X_SCALE = 2.5;  /* X_FULL / X_SIZE */
+static gdouble Y_SCALE = 1.77; /* Y_FULL / Y_SIZE */
@@ Line 101: / Line 103: @@
 {
    GtkWidget *drawing = gtk_drawing_area_new ();
+  GtkRequisition *req;
    g_signal_connect (drawing, "realize",
 		    G_CALLBACK (drawing_realize), NULL);
@@ Line 119: / Line 122: @@
    gdk_event_put ((GdkEvent *) newev);
 }
+static void
+button_clicked (GtkWidget *widget, HildonAnimationActor *actor)
+{
+  static gboolean fullscreen = FALSE;
+  if (fullscreen) {
+    hildon_animation_actor_set_scale (actor, 1.0, 1.0);
+    fullscreen = FALSE;
+  }
+  else {
+    hildon_animation_actor_set_scale (actor, X_SCALE, Y_SCALE);
+    fullscreen = TRUE;
+  }
+}
 int
@@ Line 126: / Line 145: @@
    HildonAnimationActor *actor;
    GtkWidget *window, *drawing;
+  HildonProgram *program;
    GdkColor pink = { .red = 0xffff, .green = 0x9999, .blue = 0x9999 };