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From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:01:23 +1000
LibGGI Mode Strings
Hi guys,
With the new graphtype coming in, we need a more descriptive LibGGI mode
string format, that knows about GT_CLUT & GT_TRUECOLOR etc.
What I have in mind is replacing the '[nnn]' at the end with a
<letter><number> combination, as follows :
GT_TEXT: T4, T8 'T' for Text.
GT_CLUT: P1..P8 'P' for Palette.
GT_TRUECOLOR: C15, C16, C24 'C' for trueColor.
GT_GREYSCALE: K1..K8 'K' (just seems to be standard
for greyscale).
The number is the color depth (which is why T4 instead of T16). Some
examples:
320x200p8, 640x400c16, 80x25t4
How about it ?
Here is some other ideas, purely "food for thought" because I'm not too
fussed about them :
- instead of '#', use 'V' for Virtual. I dislike '#' because it is
often used as the start of a comment in config-files etc.
- allow a prefix of 'S' for Size, and *then* allow the different
parts to be in any order. I often type something like 'f1d1x1'
which then spews because the 'd' option has to come before the
'f' option. Some examples :
800x600c24 == s800x600c24 == c24s800x600
320x200v640x400p8 == v640x400s320x200p8 == s320x200p8v640x400
'160x100 V320x200 T4' == 'T4 V320x200 S160x100'
Cheers,
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