Using lists? I must be dumb.

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:57 pm

I must be dumb. I read the explannation in the manual but that didn't make me anny wiser.

What I'm trying to do is to display all availebel 3dgfx modes with getVideoModeList. But I don't get how to use lists that the returned pointer refers to.

Maybe there is some other documentation that i could look in to. And yes this is my first year with c++ so i'm as noob as they can get. But I'm allready in love with c++ object orented programming. I used to work with 3Dgamestudio (stupid cunny 3D engine costing 49 € and up using lameass c)

jox · Post by **jox** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:25 pm

What do you not understand? You get the list like this:

IVideoModeList* vmlist = device->getVideoModeList();

and then you can acces it via:

vmlist->getVideoModeCount();
vmlist->getDesktopResolution();
vmlist->getDesktopDepth();

and

vmlist->getVideoModeResolution(n);
vmlist->getVideoModeDepth(n);

where n < getVideoModeCount()

pauly · Post by **pauly** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:41 pm

Apparently i got it all wrong.

I thought it would return a list containing the videomodes supported by your 3DGFXcard. like opengl or direct3d

cartoonit · Post by **cartoonit** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:18 pm

Going a bit off topic, but is there a way to get all the supported modes back from the graphics driver???

jox · Post by **jox** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:22 pm

cartoonit wrote:Going a bit off topic, but is there a way to get all the supported modes back from the graphics driver???

I'm not sure if I understand your question. Could you explain further?

cartoonit · Post by **cartoonit** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:45 pm

Well surely you should be able to check what current drivers are setup on a specific machine, for example at Uni most of the computers don't have DirectX 9.0, if creating a driver instance with DirectX 9.0 the application would fall over.

Therefore a list of supported drivers could be returned from the engine???

I know you could just test whether the returned device is NULL or not, but then this means having a selection for each different graphics API - directx 8.0, 9.0 or OpenGL...

Cheez I'm not making any sense this wk....