melvin
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Now there is a very big chance this is already fixed with all the improvements for fullscreen for 5.1.1, but I only found an ancient thread from 2005 https://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=5613.

With the current SDL2 builds on Steam, the game in windowed mode cannot be resized freely. However, if you use an utility to forcibly resize it and ignore the set constraints it works absolutely perfectly.

The game itself it aspect-scaled to the available area, with any excess (sides or top/bottom) turning into black bars as expected. SDL2 likely handles this all automatically.

I run on Linux so can't easily test the current beta, but if someone would check it would be much appreciated.

It should be a very small change telling SDL to allow complete free resizing (with a minimum size) and it's super useful on today's large 4k widescreen monitors, putting DROD on half of the screen and something else on the other half.

Cheers.

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After some chat about this on the caravelchat Schik found out via https://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=44965&page=0#437776 that skell has already implemented this in https://github.com/CaravelGames/drod/pull/344 with INI option AllowWindowResizing.

At a glance it would seem better for this option to be on by default, or perhaps checkable in GUI settings. But there was some speculation that there is likely a reason it's off by default. Unsure for now.

Also, somehow I posted this in the bugs board, but it is (was) a feature request.

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Lemme quote my answer:

Whatever the reasons were, they were probably bad. Maybe to avoid people accidentally resizing the window and being unhappy about not being able to easily resize it back to maintain 1:1 pixel ratio.

Looking at it right now I don't see a reason to not keep it enabled by default.

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Thanks, hyperme!

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Nice indeed, thanks a lot!

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Can confirm the setting appears in 5.2.0.508 and works. Restarting the app brings you back to the original window size, which is a way to restore it back to the original size, so I guess that's what we want.