Widescreen + GUI = :(

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Dock

Excellent, I cracked it! :)

Shawn, you may or may not want to add this addition to your code.

; start widescreen setup
If Lower(fakewidescreen)="yes" Then ScaleEntity cam,1.25,1,1  ; stretch viewport for 'fake widescreen'
Global GUIpixel# = 1 ; setup gui squishing for widescreen
If Lower(fakewidescreen)="yes" Then GUIpixel = 0.75   ; define 0.75 width for GUI widescreen
If Float(screenwidth)/Float(screenheight)>1.4 Then GUIpixel = 0.75  ; define 0.75 width for GUI widescreen

This is where I setup my widescreen width. I have 'fake widescreen' which is basically anamorphic output, as well as proper widescreen. Stupidly, I had no idea that I needed to add 'Float' to each number I divided by, so that gave me some trouble... I've never needed that before.

CW# = ThisFont\Character_Width#[ThisChar]*GUIpixel

The '*GUIpixel' is the only part I added to the sswift code. I also added the same thing to all sections that call GUI_CreateSprite in my own code, which was a pretty easy way to handle it. This does the job really nicely. I changed some of my alignment to work by centre instead of left side, and it works okay now.