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Date: 28 Jun 2003 22:42:52 +0100
From: Alan Swanson
Subject: Re: [SDL] New XFree 4.3 Video Mode Patch
I have a wee amendment that moves the qsort in set_best_resolution
to only occur after failing to find an exact match only. This would
make absolutely sure we get a user set mode.
While I've never had any problems for my normal resolutions (1280x1024,
1024x768, 800x600 & 640,480) while closely examining the output from
qsort I've noticed it doesn't seem to sort the modes fully. These is
one definite wrong at 1152x768 and a few that just look wrong to me.
From a program (attached) I made to examine this more easily. X has
sorted its mode list using the same method as ours (plus frequency),
and our user modes get inserted without any other movement.
On the patch I've made I've also changed cmpmodes to sort on vertical
resolution and then horizontal. Ie vertical is now most significant
bit.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:52:26 +0000 |
parents | e5bc29de3f0a |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_ListModes</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 "><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 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" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlvideomodeok.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLLISTMODES" >SDL_ListModes</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN776" ></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="AEN779" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN780" ></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="AEN786" ></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="AEN801" ></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 or 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="AEN804" ></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 WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlvideodrivername.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlvideomodeok.html" >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" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_VideoModeOK</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >