Quoting Bill Hayden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sven Neumann wrote: > > >>When I used SetCooperativeMode(FULLSCREEN) or (EXCLUSIVE), everything > >>drew fine but I had no cursor. When I took that line out, I got a > >>cursor, but the drawing was confined to a 640x480 surface in the > >>middle of the screen regardless of what I size I asked for. I believe > >>this is related to creating the main surface with DSCAPS_PRIMARY. If > >>I remove the DSCAPS_PRIMARY flag from the surface description, then > >>the surface is created at the right size but nothing draws at all to > >>the screen. Aaaargh > >> > >> > > > >if you just create a surface which is not the primary and not a window > >surface, you get an offscreen surface. I have no idea why your surface > >is not created the size of the primary layer. Actually it should be > >sufficient to set the capabilities to DSCAPS_PRIMARY and not specify > >the size. You are not creating a new surface here, you only retrieve > >an interface to the primary surface. It's size is already determined > >by the size of the display layer. > > > I wish that were true, but that just doesn't seem to be the case. > Here's my code's debug output, with the code following. If you can > shed any light on this, I would be incredibly thankful. As I said > previously, even explicitly setting the width and height for the > CreateSurface call is ignored -- I always get 640x480. > > Thanks, > Bill > > Program output: > DFBDriver: Layer is 800x600 > DFBDriver: About to create a 800x600 surface > DFBDriver: surface is 640x480
You are using the normal cooperative level and therefor get the surface of an implicitly created window as your primary surface. The default size is 640x480 regardless of the layer size. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" Convergence GmbH -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
