In article <4595C8C2.1010803@thuntek.net>, "Lee H. Skinner" <skinner@thuntek.net> writes:
You can specify the video mode in a par file with VIDEO=SF7, but the .cfg file defines what SF7 is.
Perhaps an extension to the fractint.cfg file would allow you to say "mode F1 means disk,640x480". That might be better. Right now if I load fractint.cfg the modes aren't associated with any driver and that's a problem in the new world as video modes are many-to-1 with drivers. If I do that, then its the least amount of change from the "old world", which is probably good. Currently the video mode screen shows the comment field and a description of the mode. I can add a new driver field to the fractint.cfg, omit any video modes during read-in which don't have a driver field and then display the driver field in lieu of the comment field on the select video mode screen. Your existing par files still work; they specify video=SF7 and that looks up into the fractint.cfg file as it does now, only the cfg file also specifies a driver and optional driver parameters. In fact the whole ax, bx, cx, dx fields can be used as driver parameters since the driver doesn't do BIOS style mode switching. How does that sound? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>