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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:25:37 +0300
From: Dmitry Yakimov
Subject: [SDL] [PATCH] SDL bug patch
Let me introduce 2 fixes to SDL.
1. Preventing great slowdown on fast machines while hardware
flipping (it's obviously bug).
2. Setting up 85 Hz of monitor if supported. The reason is that
Win98 by default sets lowest frequency 60 Hz.
And we can't set up maximum frequency because some users can have
wrong monitor drivers.
This is important for shareware and commercial programs.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:10:16 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_ListModes</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_VideoDriverName" HREF="sdlvideodrivername.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_VideoModeOK" HREF="sdlvideomodeok.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="sdlvideodrivername.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlvideomodeok.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLLISTMODES" ></A >SDL_ListModes</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1159" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_ListModes -- Returns a pointer to an array of available screen dimensions for the given format and video flags</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1162" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN1163" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >SDL_Rect **<B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_ListModes</B ></CODE >(SDL_PixelFormat *format, Uint32 flags);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1169" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >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" >-1</SPAN > if any dimension is okay for the given format.</P ><P >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 >-><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 ></A > and they play a strong role in deciding what modes are valid. For instance, if you pass <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_HWSURFACE</TT > as a flag only modes that support hardware video surfaces will be returned.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1184" ></A ><H2 >Example</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >SDL_Rect **modes; int i; . . . /* 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]->w, modes[i]->h); } . .</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1187" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_SetVideoMode</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlgetvideoinfo.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_GetVideoInfo</TT ></A >, <A HREF="sdlrect.html" ><SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_Rect</SPAN ></A >, <A HREF="sdlpixelformat.html" ><SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_PixelFormat</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="sdlvideodrivername.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="sdlvideomodeok.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_VideoDriverName</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_VideoModeOK</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >