Re: [AD] al_get_num_display_modes and al_get_display_mode

[Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2009, at 13:28 , Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > I also added support for querying supported display formats - but it
> > will only work under GLX so far. Not a problem as it's a WIP release  
> > and
> > no examples use the functions yet.
>
> Is there enough information to work out how to implement it for other  
> platforms (OS X being what I'm thinking of)?

Yes, the functions are fully documented. Not sure how to implement them 
for OSX though. Basically, right now, the best thing you can do as user 
of A5 is to try creating a display, and if it fails, create another with 
different settings. You don't know why it failed though so this is a bit 
messy... creating new windows also is visible and takes some time, so it 
looks broken.

With the three new functions you can ask the system *first* to enumerate 
all possible modes ("X11 visuals" for GLX), then choose one of them. 
Very easy and clean to use.

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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>