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I want to design an app for the current iPad Retina and iPad air, but am puzzled by the nature of the Retina screen , which distinguishes between the number of points 1024x768 and the number of pixels. I found this where all screen sizes are indicated http://www.iosres.com/

My question is : what size should I make my stack ? 1024 x 768 ?

Thank you.

Hi Mitch,

michel_bujardet wrote:what size should I make my stack ? 1024 x 768 ?

yes

Livecode will scale this to double size on retina displays, so if you use a lot of images you can supply HI-RES version of the used images.
This will however only work with REFERENCED images!

Here is how this works:
In your 1024*768 stack use your referenced image(s)
Example:
a_nice_landscape.jpg

Then put the hi-res version (double sized) of that image into the same folder and name it:
a_nice_landscape@2x.jpg

Livecode will use the hi-res version on retina displays and the "normal" version on other displays.
Automatically, no scripting

Does work with ALL referenced images, means also with images used as icons in buttons!

Hope that helps!

Best

Klaus

Klaus wrote:Livecode will use the hi-res version on retina displays and the "normal" version on other displays.
Automatically, no scripting

Great. Thank you Klaus