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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:06:20 +0100 From: Per Inge Mathisen Subject: [SDL] Fullscreen refresh on win32 Windows has a terrible default for fullscreen 3D apps of 60mhz refresh rate. This can be fixed by the user by going into his driver's control panel and forcing the refresh rate higher. However, this not a very user friendly way about it, and in any case SDL contains no code that could figure out this that condition has afflicted the user. So the question is, could SDL fix this for the user? It is possible under Windows to request a higher refresh rate. The danger is of course that if the user has an old monitor, and you request a too high refresh rate, the monitor could be damaged. However, I believe there might be a way around that: Check before switching what refresh rate the user's desktop runs in, and if our fullscreen dimensions are equal or less than those of the desktop, use the higher refresh rate of 60 and the desktop rate. Since most users run their desktops in the same or higher resolution something sane, this should fix this problem for most users. Thoughts? An alternative is to add an SDL_GL_GetAttribute(SDL_GL_REFRESH_RATE) option so that programs can bitch at their users at their own convenience. - Per
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:56:10 +0000
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>Chapter 11. CD-ROM</H1
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>SDL_CDNumDrives</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns the number of CD-ROM drives on the system.</DT
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>SDL_CDName</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns a human-readable, system-dependent identifier for the CD-ROM.</DT
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>SDL_CDOpen</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Opens a CD-ROM drive for access.</DT
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>SDL_CDStatus</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns the current status of the given drive.</DT
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>SDL_CDPlay</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Play a CD</DT
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>SDL_CDPlayTracks</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Play the given CD track(s)</DT
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>SDL_CDPause</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Pauses a CDROM</DT
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>SDL_CDResume</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Resumes a CDROM</DT
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>SDL_CDStop</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Stops a CDROM</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Ejects a CDROM</DT
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>SDL_CDClose</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Closes a SDL_CD handle</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;CDROM Drive Information</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;CD Track Information Structure</DT
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>SDL supports audio control of up to 32 local CD-ROM drives at once.</P
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>You use this API to perform all the basic functions of a CD player,
including listing the tracks, playing, stopping, and ejecting the CD-ROM.
(Currently, multi-changer CD drives are not supported.)</P
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>Before you call any of the SDL CD-ROM functions, you must first call
"<TT
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>SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_CDROM)</TT
>", which scans the system for
CD-ROM drives, and sets the program up for audio control.  Check the 
return code, which should be <SPAN
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>0</SPAN
>, to see if there 
were any errors in starting up.</P
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>After you have initialized the library, you can find out how many drives
are available using the <TT
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>SDL_CDNumDrives()</TT
> function.  
The first drive listed is the system default CD-ROM drive.  After you have 
chosen a drive, and have opened it with <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_CDOpen()</TT
>, 
you can check the status and start playing if there's a CD in the drive.</P
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>A CD-ROM is organized into one or more tracks, each consisting of a certain
number of "frames".  Each frame is ~2K in size, and at normal playing speed,
a CD plays 75 frames per second.  SDL works with the number of frames on a
CD, but this can easily be converted to the more familiar minutes/seconds
format by using the <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>FRAMES_TO_MSF()</TT
> macro.</P
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