Widescreen Gaming Forum

For completeness:

The horizontal/vertical values are simple the raw hex values of the numbers input in the horizontal/vertical boxes. So if you put 1920 in the vertical box, you'll see the hex value 8007.

Going backwards...

80 07 == 07 80 (Converted to big endian... Normal left to right view that us humans are used to )

0-----7----8--0
4096 256 16 1 (Notice these values... They're base 16. (1*16 = 16), (16*16 = 256), (256*16 = 4096), etc.)

(7 * 256) + (8 * 16) = 1792 + 128 = 1920

And that's all there is to it.

The combined hex field is a bit more complicated. Unfortunately, I can't explain it so briefly. There is an industry standard that some genius figured out called IEEE 754. It uses something called two's complement. The important thing you need to know is if you take 1920/1080, you get 1.77777...8. The hex value of 1.7777...8, according to the IEEE 754 standard, is 39 8E E3 3F. That's where the sign, exponent, and mantissa come into play. If I'm being honest, I learned IEEE 754 at some point in college, but I don't remember how it's calculated and I don't particularly care. It's one of those things that I can always look up in a book or online.

To show how irrelevant it actually is to know, I wrote this program, which perfectly represents IEEE 754, without referencing the specification.

Just want to say I've started some preliminary work on this. When I say preliminary, I mean I'm reading a book on the Win32 API and haven't written any code. The literature on the low level Windows API is slim, and what is widely considered the "best" book is from 1998.

The work involved is pretty significant and very low-level. It's a big enough project that I'll have to design everything up front to make it manageable, so I'll likely write a mock GUI for feedback in the coming weeks.

As for ResHex, if you have any feature requests for usability, let me know. I meant to start this a couple weeks ago, but I'll be adding customizable spacing tonight so hex values are easier to read. This is just a calculator, so it's likely it'll be merged into the bigger project at some point.

Version 0.61 is finally out!

Sorry for the delay. I had it finished last weekend but had issues creating an installer that would automatically resolve dependencies. This guy is good to go now, though!

I'm also looking into why Chrome is giving warnings when downloading. The file is flagged as "Not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous." I believe I have that fixed, but not sure how long it takes Google to do their thing.

Also make me wonder if Google is tracking everything I download. Hrm...

FYI I just got the same warning in IE. No warning in FF.

Thanks for the response! I've tested it in all three major browsers now, and I haven't had the problem anymore.

Little while since I've been around, but I've been pretty busy over the past month at work, logging a lot of hours at the end of a project. Using a PC when I get home has been pretty low on my list Things are starting to settle down now, so I'm about ready to throw myself back into my personal projects.

Can someone reupload this somewhere? website is down.

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Thanks!

I cant seem to get the program to install. Was wondering if anyone knew the Hex value for 1520X1440

The hex values are 5F0 (width) and 5A0 (height).