ADD 1 SCREEN size and position

General
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I use a screen consumer with a smaller size for previewing lowerthirds.

in the config with:426x240

But when I accidenly remove the screen consumer and want to add it again without restarting the server.

Using ACMP and sending:
ADD 1 SCREEN
works for adding the screen. But can’t get size to work

Running caspar 2.4.1
tried running server/src/modules/screen/consumer/screen_consumer.cpp at master · CasparCG/server · GitHub
through an AI:

Looking at the source code, I can see the issue. The size parameters need to be specified as WIDTH and HEIGHT in the ADD SCREEN command. Here’s the correct syntax:
ADD 1 SCREEN WIDTH 1280 HEIGHT 720
You can also combine it with position if needed:
ADD 1 SCREEN WIDTH 1280 HEIGHT 720 X 100 Y 100

Tried that but also does not work.

Am I missing something?

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std::wstring    name          = L"Screen consumer";
int             screen_index  = 0;
int             screen_x      = 0;
int             screen_y      = 0;
int             screen_width  = 0;
int             screen_height = 0;

Found this in the cpp, name works:
add 1 screen name test

but screen_width doe snot ;-(
add 1 screen screen_width 640 screen_height 300

Supid thing it does look for screen_index:

[info] Received message from Console: add 1 screen 1 640 360\r\n
[warning] Screen consumer [1|1080i5000] Could not find display settings for screen-index: 1

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The source code you link to there is for the beta builds. Those parameters are only supported there and not in v2.4.1. server/src/modules/screen/consumer/screen_consumer.cpp at v2.4.1-stable · CasparCG/server · GitHub is the version of the file in v2.4.1

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tnx, good to know it will be in an new version of caspar!
Manual resize for now then.

Looking at the actual source code, I can see that the screen consumer creation function create_consumer only processes certain specific parameters, and size/position parameters aren’t among them. The parameters it checks for are:

  1. FULLSCREEN (to set windowed = false)
  2. KEY_ONLY
  3. SBS_KEY
  4. NON_INTERACTIVE (to set interactive = false)
  5. BORDERLESS
  6. NAME