Short API questions - isFullscreen() getColorDepth()?

keless · Post by **keless** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:50 pm

I need to find out the color depth of the current videoDriver, and whether or not it is fullscreen, after having been created. I cannot find this information in the API, and didnt see any promising topics in forum search.

Anyone know off the top of their heads?

As a workaround, I could store the parameters I use to create the device and just pull the data from that. However, I'd think you could ask the device whether or not it was full screen and not have to carry redundant data like that..

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:26 pm

hmm yes, I'll move this to open discussion and ask-

Anyone have objections to adding these two, can think of better names for them, or think returning ECOLOR_FORMAT is wrong, etc?

bool IrrlichtDevice::isFullScreen()
ECOLOR_FORMAT IVideoDriver::getColorFormat()

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:42 pm

Adding those would certainly be nice. But it's not just about using the bitdepth which was set, but you have to find the bitdepth which is actually used.

It's some time since I checked that, but I think it was like that:
CIrrDeviceLinux had already a depth parameter. On Windows/OpenGL you could call DescribePixelFormat after the ChoosePixelFormat call in COpenGLDriver::initDriver(). But I don't know about DirectX which I did not check.