Re: lingo-l Changing resolution
You know the resolution from the desktoprectlist. You would want to be sure that you resize the same monitor that the stage is going to appear on. Probably (the desktoprectlist)[1]. Are you sure that director can resize the desktop? It can change the colordepth, and no, you don't want to do that. Do it with your own Lingo, that way you can make a note of the original setting, and politely set it back. I'm guessing that you mean 800/600/16 bit and not 800/600/16 colors? Some Mac video boards didn't do 16 bit (or 15 bit), they went straight from 256 colors up to millions, with nothing in between. If the intention is to make sure that there's a nice color range, why not first check if they're in millions, and if they are don't mess with the color at all. I mean, why lower the quality just for the sake of it? Direct OS Xtra has a dosSetDisplay function that may do the resolution change. In general I think that resizing the desktop is an impolite thing to do, but I don't know anyone who would not allow that while playing Quake. -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
lingo-l Changing resolution
Hello all-- A client has asked me to automatically change the user's display to 800 x 600 x 16 for a game. The Mac is giving me pause. It's pretty easy on Windows--I use Buddy to do all the checking, and restore the original settings. Buddy doesn't have those calls on the Mac, though. As far as I can tell, I can't even find out the current resolution. As far as I can tell, the only way to change resolution is through the options when I'm building the projector. So, a couple questions: - Is there another way, like Buddy on Windows? - If I let Director change the resolution, does it reset it when it exits? - Generally, how do Mac users feel about a game resetting their resolution? I know I'd blow my stack if a word processor did it, but I think games are expected to behave differently. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Changing resolution
- Generally, how do Mac users feel about a game resetting their resolution? I know I'd blow my stack if a word processor did it, but I think games are expected to behave differently. In my humble experience, Mac users will mind very little if a game changes their resolution - no matter whether it is UT or Tetris - and also if your game zooms/scales to fill the entire screen. As long as it´s a fun game anyway... Many semi-large games on the Mac do the scaling thing in fullscreen mode - have a look at for example Wingnut or Deimos Rising. Sometimes there is a menu command for playing in a window, like in Caesar III, which would scale the stage back to 100% (normal) size, or for changing stage size afterwards. ((If you were to change the desktop size, which you apparently don´t intend to do, on the Mac there would mostly be some kind of message or dialog box before the game fills the screen, sometimes with a popup list choice of resolutions/color depths (eg. Wingnut), sometimes with an exit/quit button if they don´t want to change resolution for some reason. This is a scheme you might adapt for your stage scaling also)) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
