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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> |
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date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:56:10 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_BlitSurface</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Video" HREF="video.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_ConvertSurface" HREF="sdlconvertsurface.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_FillRect" HREF="sdlfillrect.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SDL Library Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlconvertsurface.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlfillrect.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLBLITSURFACE" ></A >SDL_BlitSurface</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN2299" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_BlitSurface -- This performs a fast blit from the source surface to the destination surface.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN2302" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN2303" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_BlitSurface</B ></CODE >(SDL_Surface *src, SDL_Rect *srcrect, SDL_Surface *dst, SDL_Rect *dstrect);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN2309" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >This performs a fast blit from the source surface to the destination surface.</P ><P >The width and height in <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >srcrect</I ></TT > determine the size of the copied rectangle. Only the position is used in the <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dstrect</I ></TT > (the width and height are ignored).</P ><P >If <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >srcrect</I ></TT > is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NULL</TT >, the entire surface is copied. If <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dstrect</I ></TT > is <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NULL</TT >, then the destination position (upper left corner) is (0, 0).</P ><P >The final blit rectangle is saved in <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dstrect</I ></TT > after all clipping is performed (<TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >srcrect</I ></TT > is not modified).</P ><P >The blit function should not be called on a locked surface.</P ><P >The results of blitting operations vary greatly depending on whether <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_SRCAPLHA</TT > is set or not. See <A HREF="sdlsetalpha.html" >SDL_SetAlpha</A > for an explaination of how this affects your results. Colorkeying and alpha attributes also interact with surface blitting, as the following pseudo-code should hopefully explain. <PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >if (source surface has SDL_SRCALPHA set) { if (source surface has alpha channel (that is, format->Amask != 0)) blit using per-pixel alpha, ignoring any colour key else { if (source surface has SDL_SRCCOLORKEY set) blit using the colour key AND the per-surface alpha value else blit using the per-surface alpha value } } else { if (source surface has SDL_SRCCOLORKEY set) blit using the colour key else ordinary opaque rectangular blit }</PRE ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN2328" ></A ><H2 >Return Value</H2 ><P >If the blit is successful, it returns <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >0</SPAN >, otherwise it returns <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >-1</SPAN >.</P ><P >If either of the surfaces were in video memory, and the blit returns <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >-2</SPAN >, the video memory was lost, so it should be reloaded with artwork and re-blitted: <PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > while ( SDL_BlitSurface(image, imgrect, screen, dstrect) == -2 ) { while ( SDL_LockSurface(image)) < 0 ) SDL_Delay(10); -- Write image pixels to image->pixels -- SDL_UnlockSurface(image); }</PRE > This happens under DirectX 5.0 when the system switches away from your fullscreen application. Locking the surface will also fail until you have access to the video memory again.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN2336" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdllocksurface.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_LockSurface</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlfillrect.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_FillRect</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlsurface.html" ><SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_Surface</SPAN ></A >, <A HREF="sdlrect.html" ><SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_Rect</SPAN ></A ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlconvertsurface.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlfillrect.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_ConvertSurface</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="video.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_FillRect</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >