Blackbar distance for higher aspect ratio

[subsoap]

Say I have a game with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

If I resize the window I want it to fit the game into a 4:3 aspect ratio. If the window was resized to a 4:3 aspect ratio then it would clip off the 16:9 aspect ratio area.

But if I resize the window to be larger than 4:3 I want the black bars to not draw up to a for example 16:9 aspect ratio.

Make sense?

The reason for this is to have a game area with a smaller aspect ratio, but still have it easy for the game to look nice on widescreen monitors without the letterboxing so close to the game area.

[rgrams]

Hmm . . . sorry I don't follow. With the current fixed aspect ratio mode, if you set it at 4:3 then it will always be 4:3, no matter the window size or proportion. You want something different?

[subsoap]

I mean that you can scale the window down to 4:3 and everything will fit without showing any black bars, but you can widen the window up to 16:9 and it would be able to continue to draw game background/particles/whatever and then draw black bars after that. I can make a modification later to show.

[rgrams]

Ah, so you want an aspect ratio range?

[subsoap]

No, the ability for the game to fit its window to one aspect but draw black bars to another.