Feature Request: Dynamic Video Mode Enumeration

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:21 am

Currently, It is impossible in irrlicht to find out what video modes are supported by a machine explicitly. The only available data in getVideoModeList are things pertaining to depth and resolution. There is no information available as to the Device Type.

Feature Request:

add irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE irr::video::IVideoList::getVideoModeType( u32 modeNumber ) const;
and irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE irr::video::CVideoList::getVideoModeType( u32 modeNumber )const;
and irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE irr::video::CVideoList::SVideoList::DriverType;

as well as explicitly declaring the values for irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE enumerations.

*EDIT*

Dark_Kilauea · Post by **Dark_Kilauea** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:14 am

Might be possible to return an array of enumerations based on what driver modes are available, since it is very common for both OpenGL and DirectX to be valid.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:26 am

What is a device type?

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:43 am

woops, total mistype, E_DRIVER_TYPE

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:09 am

You mean if opengl or d3d is supported?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:13 pm

I've added a static device method to check if some driver is compiled into the engine. Maybe this fulfills the request, otherwise please be more specific.

rooly · Post by **rooly** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:56 am

thinking about it real hard, i realize that getVideoModeList is doing exactly what its meant to do.

The problem is the actual explanation of what it does:
"Gets a list with all video modes available."
for getVideoModeList()

I suppose changing the documentation to more obviously
"Gets a list of desktop resolutions and bit depths available to the engine and hardware."
would make the use of this operation a bit more obvious.

I apologize, I was asked a question about using this feature, and was misled in interpreting the function's usage.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:14 pm

Well, that's what I'd call the video mode, but I can add some more details to the docs. Anway, the new method will stay and can be used to check if some video driver is available