I'm trying to make an application in cocos2d that can be used on multiple platforms (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch). Let's say I set a point to (360,160). The point would show up three fourths from the left and half way up the screen on the iPhone. Would it also do this on the ipad, or would I have to set the point to (768,384) to achieve this result? or does it stretch the screen. I figured I would have to, but am unsure because when I get the size of the screen during an iPhone OR iPad simulation, I always get 480x320 regardless.
Ignoring the iPhone 4 for the moment, the devices map their screens 1:1 with their coordinate spaces, so the iPhone has a coordinate space with size 320x480 (or 480x320 in landscape mode) while the iPad has a coordinate space with size 768x1024 (or 1024x768 in landscape mode.)
The iPhone 4, of course, quadruples the device pixels, but maintains an identical coordinate space to other iPhones and scales drawing to match the screen's resolution.