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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_SetPalette</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_SetColors" HREF="sdlsetcolors.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_SetGamma" HREF="sdlsetgamma.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="sdlsetcolors.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlsetgamma.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLSETPALETTE" ></A >SDL_SetPalette</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1517" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_SetPalette -- Sets the colors in the palette of an 8-bit surface.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1520" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN1521" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_SetPalette</B ></CODE >(SDL_Surface *surface, int flags, SDL_Color *colors, int firstcolor, int ncolors);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1527" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Sets a portion of the palette for the given 8-bit surface.</P ><P >Palettized (8-bit) screen surfaces with the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_HWPALETTE</TT > flag have two palettes, a logical palette that is used for mapping blits to/from the surface and a physical palette (that determines how the hardware will map the colors to the display). <A HREF="sdlblitsurface.html" >SDL_BlitSurface</A > always uses the logical palette when blitting surfaces (if it has to convert between surface pixel formats). Because of this, it is often useful to modify only one or the other palette to achieve various special color effects (e.g., screen fading, color flashes, screen dimming).</P ><P >This function can modify either the logical or physical palette by specifing <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_LOGPAL</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_PHYSPAL</TT >the in the <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >flags</I ></TT > parameter.</P ><P >When <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >surface</I ></TT > is the surface associated with the current display, the display colormap will be updated with the requested colors. If <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_HWPALETTE</TT > was set in <A HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html" >SDL_SetVideoMode</A > flags, <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_SetPalette</TT > will always return <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >1</SPAN >, and the palette is guaranteed to be set the way you desire, even if the window colormap has to be warped or run under emulation.</P ><P >The color components of a <A HREF="sdlcolor.html" ><SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_Color</SPAN ></A > structure are 8-bits in size, giving you a total of 256<SUP >3</SUP >=16777216 colors.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1547" ></A ><H2 >Return Value</H2 ><P >If <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >surface</I ></TT > is not a palettized surface, this function does nothing, returning <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >0</SPAN >. If all of the colors were set as passed to <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_SetPalette</TT >, it will return <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >1</SPAN >. If not all the color entries were set exactly as given, it will return <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >0</SPAN >, and you should look at the surface palette to determine the actual color palette.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1555" ></A ><H2 >Example</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > /* Create a display surface with a grayscale palette */ SDL_Surface *screen; SDL_Color colors[256]; int i; . . . /* Fill colors with color information */ for(i=0;i<256;i++){ colors[i].r=i; colors[i].g=i; colors[i].b=i; } /* Create display */ screen=SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 8, SDL_HWPALETTE); if(!screen){ printf("Couldn't set video mode: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); exit(-1); } /* Set palette */ SDL_SetPalette(screen, SDL_LOGPAL|SDL_PHYSPAL, colors, 0, 256); . . . .</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1558" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdlsetcolors.html" >SDL_SetColors</A >, <A HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html" >SDL_SetVideoMode</A >, <A HREF="sdlsurface.html" >SDL_Surface</A >, <A HREF="sdlcolor.html" >SDL_Color</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="sdlsetcolors.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="sdlsetgamma.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_SetColors</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_SetGamma</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >