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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:09:32 +0300 From: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@ray.fi> To: sdl@libsdl.org Subject: [SDL] [RFC] get_ticks broken on linux It uses gettimeofday to calculate the timedifference. Gettimeofday returns current time which is seldom monotonous. This breaks SDL timer subsystem. (time callbacks and all that get borked when the time difference ms is suddenly ~ 2^32) I posted a message about this earlier but got no response. Some thoughts on this matter would be appreciated. (Or even an explanation for the lack of interest.) A patch below would use the posix timers that have been around since posix 93 and do provide a good source of monotonous time on linux boxes (and on few others too). The following patch is also availabe at: http://www.hut.fi/u/tkyntola/SDL-1.2.9-clockfix.patch It's against 1.2.9, but I can easily rediffit against the cvs branch is needed. cheers, Tommi Kyntola tommi.kyntola@ray.fi
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:16:12 +0000
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>SDL_ListModes</H1
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>Name</H2
>SDL_ListModes&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns a pointer to an array of available screen dimensions for 
the given format and video flags</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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><CODE
><CODE
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>SDL_Rect **<B
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>SDL_ListModes</B
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>(SDL_PixelFormat *format, Uint32 flags);</CODE
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>Return a pointer to an array of available screen dimensions for the given
format and video flags, sorted largest to smallest.  Returns
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>NULL</TT
> if there are no dimensions available for a particular
format, or <SPAN
CLASS="RETURNVALUE"
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> if any dimension is okay for
the given format.</P
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>If <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>format</I
></TT
> is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>NULL</TT
>, the mode list
will be for the format returned by <A
HREF="sdlgetvideoinfo.html"
>SDL_GetVideoInfo()</A
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>vfmt</I
></TT
>. The <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>flag</I
></TT
> parameter is an OR'd combination of <A
HREF="sdlsurface.html"
>surface</A
> flags. The flags are the same as those used <A
HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html"
><TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SetVideoMode</TT
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> and they play a strong role in deciding what modes are valid. For instance, if you pass <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SDL_HWSURFACE</TT
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>SDL_Rect **modes;
int i;
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/* Get available fullscreen/hardware modes */
modes=SDL_ListModes(NULL, SDL_FULLSCREEN|SDL_HWSURFACE);

/* Check is there are any modes available */
if(modes == (SDL_Rect **)0){
  printf("No modes available!\n");
  exit(-1);
}

/* Check if our resolution is restricted */
if(modes == (SDL_Rect **)-1){
  printf("All resolutions available.\n");
}
else{
  /* Print valid modes */
  printf("Available Modes\n");
  for(i=0;modes[i];++i)
    printf("  %d x %d\n", modes[i]-&#62;w, modes[i]-&#62;h);
}
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