_Putimage Question.

[SMcNeill]

The thing is, you're only seeing a small portion of the actual imagine you're putting on the screen.

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*P                   *
*                    *
*                    *
*                    *
*                    *
*                    *
*                    *
*                    *
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Now, let's say the above is your arrow on a 120x120 image. Do you notice how you're only actually displaying a very small corner of that image?  The vast majority is going to be black space.   But it's still there.   When you put that on a 360x360 image, you're basically just going to blow that P up to triple the size and have a ton of blank space.

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*P  *
*   *
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Now compare the first image to the second one here.  Notice how that P now has a completely different area of white space around it it?  When you put this small image on the same 360x360 screen, it's not going to triple the size.  It's going to go from the 30x30 screen above and blow it up 12 times as wide and tall to fit the same 360x360 screen.

That's basically what you're doing here and why you're getting the results you are.

The smaller you screen, the more it's going to have to stretch to fill the area you want it to fill.

(Edit and why those code boxes aren't preserving the spaces properly is a mystery to me.  Grrrr)