Stack Resizing Tool
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:26 pm
I wanted to share this little plugin tool I've made and have been using.
ResTool is a small palette for resizing your stack to a number of standard screen dimensions.
It's handy for stacks intended for iOS, Android, or kiosks development.
You can switch from portrait to landscape orientations, subtract an arbitrary number of pixels to account for a status bar, and move the stack around on the screen. There are buttons to shift the stack up and down, left and right--useful, for example, if you are working on a laptop or smaller screen and developing a stack meant for HD1080 resolution in portrait orientation. (That's exactly what got me started on this in the first place.)
There is a substack with a chart of common video standards and aspect ratios, and a couple of useful tables (via the "Ref" button.)
No documentation, really, but the tooltips should help if anything isn't obvious.
Put it your Plugins folder, of course.
UPDATE: I've made an info and download page here: http://buchwald.ca/developer-tools/
If you have any suggestions, additions or edits, please feel free to modify it as you see fit, or send me such ideas. I hope you may find it useful.
Thanks!
- Charles
ResTool is a small palette for resizing your stack to a number of standard screen dimensions.
It's handy for stacks intended for iOS, Android, or kiosks development.
You can switch from portrait to landscape orientations, subtract an arbitrary number of pixels to account for a status bar, and move the stack around on the screen. There are buttons to shift the stack up and down, left and right--useful, for example, if you are working on a laptop or smaller screen and developing a stack meant for HD1080 resolution in portrait orientation. (That's exactly what got me started on this in the first place.)
There is a substack with a chart of common video standards and aspect ratios, and a couple of useful tables (via the "Ref" button.)
No documentation, really, but the tooltips should help if anything isn't obvious.
Put it your Plugins folder, of course.
UPDATE: I've made an info and download page here: http://buchwald.ca/developer-tools/
If you have any suggestions, additions or edits, please feel free to modify it as you see fit, or send me such ideas. I hope you may find it useful.
Thanks!
- Charles