how to scale a UI acording to window-size?

this is pretty clunky, but it may be a start-- it works in max 6, don't know about v7.
don't know if it works in a bpatcher or in presentation mode; there may be some more sophisticated tools you can use with javascript

I think that is a nice idea. thanks. I don't know if zoomfactor can by applied onto a bpatcher, but it could be applied inside of it. So it could work.
I came up with javascript which calculates a relative size and position for each object, but that's a lot of scripting when it comes to a higher amount of objects in the UI. I'll post it tomorrow .

Just my 2 cents, I found it easier to scale everything by including the whole main patcher, in a "top ui" bpatcher, except the "scaling" mechanism.
Also, when scaling up and down the screen doesn't stay at the "top-left" corner. As a solution, every time I change the UI scale (using the zoomfactor), I also trigger a this.patcher.wind.scrollto(0, 0); in a JS to reset the view at the top left.
I haven't found a way to reset the window view without JavaScript, if anyone knows, please let me know!

-N

thanks. That is what I came up with. (To simplify, I didn't pack it into a bpatcher). Since in this case, there are only 3 Objects, my method works ok. But with more UI-Objects it would be to much coding.

here again. it was missing the js-code. don't know how to copy-compress it

@Nikolas
Can you post an example patch with the js included?

Hi mr.L,

I included a simple zooming ui, based on the idea. The only problem is that you have to keep the aspect ratio the same, else it will clip the "excess" interface! But you can scale any interface, without worrying about positions, font sizes etc..

I hope this helps!

-N

Hi Nikolas,

yes that helps a lot. Thank you!

best, l

Nikolas, if you change yout JS code slightly, you can easily get rid of the aspect ratio problem you mentioned:

inlets = 1;
outlets = 1;

// global vars about the box.
var prevSize = [450, 350]; // The original starting size

function updateSize(newWidth, newHeight)
{
    if ((newWidth != prevSize[0]) || (newHeight != prevSize[1]))
    {
        // The size has changed!
        var zoomX = newWidth / prevSize[0];
        var zoomY = newHeight / prevSize[1];

        if (zoomX > zoomY)
        {var finalZoom = zoomY} else {var finalZoom = zoomX}
        scaleFactor(finalZoom);
    }
}

function scaleFactor(newFactor)
{
    this.patcher.message("zoomfactor", newFactor);
    this.patcher.wind.scrollto(0, 0);
}