Problem setting video mode

[hamlatzis]

I'm trying to port a game of mine from webOS to PlayBook which uses SDL.

I've downloaded SDL (emulate branch: blackberry-SDL-d8ad2b9) and the master branch for TouchControlOverlay (blackberry-TouchControlOverlay-437dfb5)

I use the latest NDK and the simulator under Windows XP using eclipse and have set my project as managed.

In my main I initialise SDL as follows:

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { // init SDL. This function is all it takes to init both // the audio and video. int result = SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_AUDIO | SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK | SDL_INIT_NOPARACHUTE ); atexit(SDL_Quit); if ( result < 0 ) return result;

SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_RED_SIZE, 5);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_GREEN_SIZE, 6);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_BLUE_SIZE, 5);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_ALPHA_SIZE, 0);

const int nScreenWidth = 1024;
const int nScreenHeight = 600;

SDL_Surface* pSurface = SDL_SetVideoMode(nScreenWidth, nScreenHeight, 0, SDL_OPENGL | SDL_FULLSCREEN);
if ( !pSurface )
{
    fprintf( stderr, "Video mode set failed: %s\n",
                 SDL_GetError( ) );
    return 1;
}

....................................... }

It fails to return a valid surface with error message: "Video mode set failed: No video mode large enough for 1024x600". I thought PlayBook's resolution was 1024x600. I've tried to create a smaller surface (640x480) and it succeeds but I need the higher resolution.

I even downloaded the sample SDL_GL (https://github.com/asimonov-rim/SDL_GL) but I get the same error message.

[jnicholl]

That seems strange to me, but I haven't actually tested on simulator at all. Do you know if the problem also exists on device?

[hamlatzis]

I don't have a device yet. I couldn't buy here in Greece the device and ordering it from Europe was too expensive for me (around 600euro) so I've asked my sister who is in the UK to buy one for me (250pounds - have the euro price) and I'm waiting for her to come home for her summer vacations (in two weeks time). Until then I'm stack with the simulator.

[jnicholl]

I'll try to investigate, I'm setting up the simulator now.

-----Original Message----- From: hamlatzis [mailto:reply@reply.github.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:56 PM To: Jeremy Nicholl Subject: Re: [SDL] Problem setting video mode (#21)

I don't have a device yet. I couldn't buy here in Greece the device and ordering it from Europe was too expensive for me (around 600euro) so I've asked my sister who is in the UK to buy one for me (250pounds - have the euro price) and I'm waiting for her to come home for her summer vacations (in two weeks time). Until then I'm stack with the simulator.

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[jnicholl]

I've found a fix. Apparently simulator doesn't support SCREEN_PROPERTY_NATIVE_RESOLUTION and was returning 0x0 as the native resolution of the display. Should be fixed with https://github.com/blackberry/SDL/commit/b7631ef912515f5435fdb1ce288274706446378b

[hamlatzis]

Thank you it worked perfectly.