Asset scaling 100% 140% 180% Splash Screen too?

Question

According to this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/2d5d48fc-5baa-496c-b477-eb724e5466b9

and the guidelines at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/Hh465338

we can specify three sizes of splash screens. But, only the 620x300 size can be put in the manifest. VS gives an error if the 140 or 180 size is specified. And, only the -100 size is displayed, as far as I can tell.

I added three splash screens to my manifest:

assets/SplashScreen-100.png (sized 630x300)

assets/SplashScreen-140.png (sized 868x420)

assets/SplashScreen-180.png (sized 1116x540)

On my Samsung //Build tablet, shouldn't Windows show the 180 size since the screen can handle it? Only the 100% size is shown.

Thanks,

Rick

Answer 1

The version chosen will depend on the resolution set on the system. The goal is to keep the UI at a readable size on both high and low DPI systems.

If you go to the Ease of Access center and select "Make everything on the screen bigger" it will choose the larger size.

--Rob

Answer 2

are you sure that you are using the correct names on your files?

if you have a look at Guidelines for scaling to pixel density  the name convention described there is as follows:

Option #1 - File naming convention:
...\test.scale-100.jpg
   \test.scale-140.jpg
   \test.scale-180.jpg

Answer 3

No I had not named them with ".scale-100.png".

Now after reading your post, my splashscreens are named: "assets\SplashScreen.scale-100.png" and so on for -140 and -180.

After renaming the splash screens, I updated the manifest to point to "Assets\SplashScreen.png" (without the .scale-100) and the compiler accepted that!

So, perhaps it is working,  however on my \\Build tablet it still displays only the -100 image which only uses about 1/4 of the screen. 

Thanks,

Rick

Answer 4

Hello,

The BUILD tablet has a 1366x768 resolution if I remember correctly, which show the UI at a 100% scale. If you want to test your assets you can also use the simulator to and change the resolution to get the 180% scale.

You can also check out this page for the required résolutions : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh846296.aspx