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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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>SDL_ListModes</H1
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>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
CLASS="FSFUNC"
>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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