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- On 21-Apr-98, Andy Kellett smashed the keyboard with:
- >> I don't have a gfx card and really don't know what each screen mode
- >> does and what compatabilities there are etc.etc. so I need someones
- >> help who knows about them.
- >
- >> Now that Backbone works with the GUI extension, I added an option to
- >> run it on any screen mode. It's normally run on either Hires or
- >> Hires+Laced.
- >
- >> I have a user who uses DBL Pal 640x512 screen for Backbone.
- >> Now what Backbone does is to open another screen on top of it for
- >> displaying various amos graphics when it needs too. This way, the
- >> original screen can be any resolution and I can open the correct
- >> resolution screen for GFX.
- >
- >> Normally this is OK because a Lowres 32 colour screen displayed on a
- >> Hires+Laced 4 colour screen is fine but apparently if the screen is
- >> DBL Pal something goes wrong and the lowres screen forces the other
- >> one to change resolution.
- >
- >> I'm afraid the user isn't a programmer and hasn't done a good job of
- >> explaining what exactly happens to me so I really don't know what to
- >> do.
- >
- >> I'd imagine I'd have to make the lowres screen into some different
- >> resolution (DBL Pal lowres?) but I'm hoping someone does know how it
- >> works and can solve it for me
- >
- > I had a bug report a couple of weeks back (I also sent it to the list)
- > saying that the Gui Clone command caused problems with Gfx cards and Gui
- > Clone.
- >
- > The screenmode itself should be OK, i use a Multiscan:Productivity
- > screenmode with my Mailinglist software, and all is OK with just a regular
- > GUI.
- >
- > To solve it, I have no idea other than to bring the other screen into the
- > same ModeID as the main screen.
-
- And that just what you have to do, I had the same problem with my editor for
- AlienBreed3DII when I moved it to public screens, the only difference was
- that I used the OSDevKit to move it. I wanted to give the user an option
- to select screenmode, but I also had to open some aditional screens in
- another resolution (main-screen was hires+laced as standard) for some
- graphic convertions... Anyway, you need to grab the viewmode of the 'main'
- screen (or let the user pick one) then do a
- "SCR_MODE and $FFFF0000" to obtain the 'Monitor ID' and use an "OR" to
- set the resolution you'd like the other screen to use, then it should
- open on the same ViewPort (unless you specify the 'own-view-port' tag
- when opening the screen, but I don't think you can do that with GUI)..
-
- An easier way could be to attach the second screen as a 'child' screen to
- the main, but I don't think that can be done with the 'GUI' extension..
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