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Bug 275

Summary: SDL_GetVideoInfo does not work as expected.
Product: SDL Reporter: Joe Bestor <joebestor>
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: joebestor
Version: 1.2.11   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description Joe Bestor 2006-07-09 20:40:56 UTC 
I'm going through the book, Focus on SDL. The author used SDL version 1.2.3 and 1.2.4. The authors program FOSDL3_1.CPP with 1.2.4 returns the following information on my system:

hw_available? 1
wm_available? 1
blit_hw? 1
blit_hw_CC? 1
blit_hw_A? 0
blit_sw? 1
blit_sw_CC? 1
blit_sw_A? 0
blit_fill? 1
video memory(in K)? 59104
bits per pixel? 32

The authors program with 1.2.11 returns the following information on my system:
hw_available? 0
wm_available? 1
blit_hw? 0
blit_hw_CC? 0
blit_hw_A? 0
blit_sw? 0
blit_sw_CC? 0
blit_sw_A? 0
blit_fill? 0
video memory(in K)? 0
bits per pixel? 32
Comment 1 Dmitry Yakimov 2006-09-11 15:21:01 UTC 
May be that is because 1.2.3 used DirectX by default and 1.2.11 uses WinDib?
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2006-09-23 21:31:39 UTC 
That's correct.  You can test with the DirectDraw video driver by setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to directx