another android dpi question...

okie dokie.. nice to know the community is as ignorant as i am.. i mean 8 days later and no answers.. even though i would assume there are many experienced people here who have encountered this problem and found a way around it..

so i guess i'll have to answer my own question for the other noobs out there that are scratching their heads over the android GUI conundrums..

took me a bit but i gathered all the info i had and messed around with it all.. creating a hybrid of all solutions and scripts on the internet.. and strangely enough i got my hybrid to work... so heres what i did...

• 1) create a java script in your project view.. name it GUIScaler..

• 2) open the script and get ready to edit it... copy and paste the following script...

  public static class GUIScaler {

     var BASE_SCALE : float = 150.0f;  // this value is the base DPI.. the dpi of the galaxy s3 is 306 
       var initialized : boolean = false;
       var scaling : boolean = false;
       var guiScale : Vector3 = Vector3.one;
       var restoreMatrix : Matrix4x4 = Matrix4x4.identity;
       // i found the average dpi of most android devices around 200dpi.. but to me 150 dpi got my gui looking really well scaled 
       
    
      
      
      
   //this will initialise the class.. 
   
       public function Initialize(scale : float)  // the scale will be 0 on platforms that have unknown dpi 
       {
              if (initialized) return;
                     initialized = true;
                  if (scale == 0 || scale < 1.1f) return; // if the scale is less than 10% don't bother, it just makes gui look like poop... 
                   guiScale.Set(scale, scale, scale);
                     scaling = true;
          }          
          
              
                  
                      
   // this is the same as above just with no value being passsed through.. this will detect the dpi of the device and adjust accordingly                    
    
      
       public function Initialize() 
       {
           Initialize(Screen.dpi / BASE_SCALE);
       }
       
       
       
    
    // this begins the scaling.. call this on the first line inside your "function ONGUI()" ... 
       public function Begin() 
       {
           if (!initialized) Initialize();
    
             if (!scaling) return;
    
             restoreMatrix = GUI.matrix;
    
           GUI.matrix = GUI.matrix * Matrix4x4.Scale(guiScale);
       }
   
   // this ends the scaling.. use this after you script your GUI's..
   // for some reason this needs to be used.. creates all kinds of problems if not..
       public function End() 
       {
           if (!scaling) return;
             GUI.matrix = restoreMatrix;
       }
     }
  
  

ok now you've done that.. heres how you use it..

• 3) when you are writing the script that calls your GUI... call GUIScaler.Initialize()inside your function start() or function awake()..

• 4) then when you create the function ONGUI() make sure the first thing you call is GUIScaler.Begin

• 5) and finally close it all off with GUIScaler.End()...

IMPORTANT.. You must use GUIScaler.End because it will mess you up.. before i figured this out i had my computer crash.. unity freeze and once my project folder became corrupted and refused to open.. so make sure you do this ...

here is an example incase my noob lingo was too confusing or inaccurate..

 #pragma strict

 
 function Start () 
 {
     GUIScaler.Initialize();
 }
 
 
 function OnGUI ()
 {
     GUIScaler.Begin();
       GUI.Label (Rect (10, 10, 150, 40), "Hello World");
       GUI.Label (Rect (435, 10 , 100, 40), "why does the world never say hi back?? " );    
     GUIScaler.End();
 }

OK so that's it.. test it out.. play with it.. go to bed with it.. it worked good for me.. so heres hoping it does the job for you..

and please i love constructive critisism.. so if your one of the experienced guys and you can see a flaw in my perfect script please let me know.. even after this awesome feat i still feel real noob lost in a world of mathf's and enumerations(whateva they are...)