Wire > fit to patch size

[JonasVorwerk]

Hi everyone,

Started to work with Wire a few days ago and obviously many beginners questions are popping up. Mainly about sizes and how to make things pixel perfect.

In the following patch there is a rectangle shown in blue, using dimensions to make it fullscreen (patch size)
My goal is to create 32 lines in red, exactly the same size as the blue rectangle.
I've experimented with "fit fill stretch" but no results yet.



Another noob question, is it possible to open a help patch while leaving your work open?

[Zoltán]

Shapes are sized relative to the patch size. 1 means the patch height.
There is a Patch info node, which has the resolution as outlet.
Leave the rect height on 1, and calculate the aspect ration from the width/height, and connect that to the rect width:
--begin-wire-patch--
544.3ocoU1zaiCBDF9uxJNaVAX7Gw2ZCoR6sUqzdpJGvXRLZcfHab61Mx+2WvNwIoNIsQ8hwd3YXFdYF7Nfvn0RgUYzMfrm2AVUa13dAG.Ls1ssVDXY.vZblHA.kdvRWvTP7DP7Yfn.PsrwT05i0HKdO6YnjoAOL.7ppvV53blzlBoKc2AP9GbqsVk2Z6M0E.xMs5h9oKkp0kVPFFEev+L7rn.vecijYAf2.Yg3DmOhJdSuKpBPFHIIdVBINBJEwTHktJAlSowvBIgiHDjHJOED.dQV232LYn9UvH9iy2WTERiaRmv1X4Z69jpTUTHcnO6Se9Foi7mbqn7a+Pux.b.3IaEvpJyq9Q6aa878e5hJup0+YiZslW4csWAgCTizhRiRHOg+oJC2RF38YlXHH6w0saxk0GwwcWTISISDxP+nSHo33qKjrGoDHMYACNCwdD9v74DB6gvEyCI2iPtuX4LMwuoFSaWYFZY2k06eq2xcqraRxWTqQvB0FotYnqYzoSLdLgVdvI7c5Ti5exab.QbH9oPmvzObLq6EGvdN7Gx8YOviIoCG3zaz4fXQQPZZzBXJNjASPwLVD6oEoor6+.G89S7SqSGus4FLWtffo7gzKPgSKH9BMIW55lzzOw0Mzh7XHMJIDlx4IPJILljKnzYg36RzNjH2Rzp8o86Qnm2IEz2MMtWt1xg9dzUT3e490BWutR1Wc4u+usdPR659ONoWBQA
--end-wire-patch--

Wire currently only supports one patch open at a time. Make sure you save your patch before opening an example. Then you can load it back quickly from recents.

[JonasVorwerk]

Thanks @zoltan, that makes things clear.
btw: love this Max style patch copying

[alt234]

Why does everywhere I read state that 1 is the height of the patch, but when I create a rectangle and use 1 for the height, I get a rectangle whose height is half that of the patch?

Is 1 the height of the patch, or is it 2?

I even tried the patch that you shared, and it has 2 for the height and 1.77 for the width (what is not filling the patch area). Shouldn't it be 3.54?

https://gyazo.com/28e79ff7bd3975bfe9f0bba0f96082da

[Zoltán]

The patch sniplet is pretty old, there was an issue with the rectangle shape then, being twice as big as it's supposed to be. That's where the size confusion originated.

Patch shape positioning is measured from the center, that's 0,0.
in a 1920x1080 pixel patch, the height positions range from -1 to 1, the width ranges from -1.77 to 1.77
The latter is the same number as the aspect ratio.

[alt234]

Thanks for the info! It's much clearer now.