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Added a few things to the TODO list. Unit testing is becoming more and more important the more features are added and the more combinations of factors there are to test.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:23:11 +0000
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>SDL_VideoModeOK</H1
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>SDL_VideoModeOK&nbsp;--&nbsp;Check to see if a particular video mode is supported.</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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>int <B
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>(int width, int height, int bpp, Uint32 flags);</CODE
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if the requested mode is not supported under any bit depth, or returns the 
bits-per-pixel of the closest available mode with the given width, height and requested <A
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>The bits-per-pixel value returned is only a suggested mode. You can usually request and bpp you want when <A
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>  the video mode and SDL will emulate that color depth with a shadow video surface.</P
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>SDL_Surface *screen;
Uint32 bpp;
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printf("Checking mode 640x480@16bpp.\n");
bpp=SDL_VideoModeOK(640, 480, 16, SDL_HWSURFACE);

if(!bpp){
  printf("Mode not available.\n");
  exit(-1);
}

printf("SDL Recommends 640x480@%dbpp.\n", bpp);
screen=SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, bpp, SDL_HWSURFACE);
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