Setting wallpaper causes picture to zoom in

[kssxs]

I noticed a problem with wallpaper setting. I have a variation of the 'Random Wallpaper' task from the Wiki, and I've found that Tasker seems to zoom in on the picture, and doesn't use the proper resoulution to fit it. I even went and resized/cropped all of my pictures to the S3's native resolution of 720x1280, and found that Tasker doesn't set it properly. If I do it manually, the pictures fit perfectly. It doesn't seem to matter which launcher you use either. While something like Apex Launcher allows you to 'scroll' the wallpaper from screen to screen (left to right), and Samsung's launcher fixes the wallpaper in place, the 'setting' of the wallpaper is incorrect.

Anybody know of a workaround to this problem, or maybe Pent can look into this and offer a solution, or fix it in an upcoming build? :)

 

Thanks!

[kssxs]

*BUMP*

 

Anyone? 

[Walter Francis]

It'd be nice if this would be fixed.  It'd be one less app running that Tasker can do instead (automatic wallpaper switching).

[PC]

Pent had explained, in another thread somewhere, that it has to do with the way Android processes the picture, and it's cropping squares.  Tasker calls on Android to set it, and that's why it's wrong (like when you try to set a picture from your Gallery as your wallpaper, it brings up those cropping squares and doesn't fit the entire picture properly).

On a sidenote, I've written to the developer of FiveWallpapers and have asked him to work on a plug-in.  He's since replied and said he might look at it, but doesn't currently have time.  That app has also been added to a change.org petition to request the developers of various apps to create Tasker-compatible plug-ins that make it easier to do the things we want using Tasker's interface.

I guess we'll see where it goes.  If it pans out, we could have our wallpaper-setting dreams come true in a plug-in ;) !

[Miakoda Combies]

I just discovered a work around!

Make your wallpapers square! I'll use mine as an example. I was using Tasker to set different wallpapers depending on orientation, and then expanded that to be random wallpapers for each orientation. I have a folder of landscape wallpapers, and a folder of portrait wallpapers. 1920x1200, and 1200x1920. So, I used Gimp to change the canvass size to 1920x1920, clicked the center button to ensure the part I want is right in the middle, make sure to use resize all layers. Then I just filled the whitespace with a color from the back ground of the wallpaper. In Tasker, Crop off, Scale off (although you should be able to scale if need be).

Now, it still zooms, BUT, it's zooming in to what I WANTED as my background!

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:42:36 AM UTC-4, PC wrote:

[PC]

This would be fine if you only had to do the manual work for say, 10 wallpapers.  Imagine if the person (like myself) has THOUSANDS (I have one folder that, literally, has over 11,000 pictures for wallpaper).  I don't think I want to manually do any Gimp work to 'fix' this issue ;) .