<Richard>I don't understand usage of some of the new FRACTINT.CFG file
Richard, These are minor items in Fractint for Windows beta 5, but are possibly features that are behaving differently than intended. In the FRACTINT.CFG file, when I tried to add the phrase: square pixels (as a comment to the F2, F3, etc. lines) between the pair of commas in: 256,,gdi in some of the rows, as follows: 256,square pixels,gdi I was trying to follow the 'instructions' of the column headings: |clr| comments | driver When I do the above the comment phrase: square pixels does *not* appear in Fractint for Windows beta 5's screen that lists resolution choices brought up by the <del> key. Is this a problem? <---<< The comments from the DOS FRACTINT.CFG file are listed in DOS Fractint's list of resolutions screen. I also noticed that you list the order of columns in the Fractint for Windows list of resolutions screen as: .colr.driver......comment... with the order of the driver and comment reversed from the FRACTINT.CFG file. This may or may not be as you intended it. Interestingly, when I added a couple of Win32 Disk Video lines that ended like this: 19, 2048, 1536,256,(1024x768*2),disk and this: 19, 4096, 3072,256,(1024x768*2),disk the list of resolutions *did* show the: (1024x768*2) So, the comment feature of the FRACTINT.CFG file works for some lines and not for others. Note: the two lines (above) had no key associated with them. (Their definition lines started with leading spaces and a leading comma.) These above added disk resolutions create the intended files OK - with the correct resolutions. Its great to still be able to add arbitrary resolutions. I sometimes calculate images at higher resolutions than I want for the final image. I then 'downsample' the higher resolution image with bicubic sampling to get a more anti-aliased version for the final image. I realize that this methodology can be problematical when applied to fractals, but has worked well for the particular fractals I have used it on. Also, I found that the line in FRACTINT.CFG defining: F9 ... 1280, 960,256, does *not* appear in the Fractint for Windows screen that lists resolution choices when I am using 1280x1024. It *does* appear when I increase my screen resolution to 1600x1200. You apparently interrogate the current screen resolution to see if it will support each Win32 GDI Video resolution in the FRACTINT.CFG file plus its containing window border. Very nice. I note that there are also at least two resolutions shown - 480 x 360 (disk & video) and 1500 x 1125 (disk) - in the Fractint for Windows resolutions screen table that are *not* in the FRACTINT.CFG file. I guess I don't know where the 480 x 360 and 1500 x 1125 pixel resolutions come from or why some comments in the FRACTINT.CFG file appear and others don't. - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net # #########################
In article <MDBBJLBFBICIIEIHFBMEOEDLDFAA.hallane@earthlink.net>, "Hal Lane" <hallane@earthlink.net> writes:
Is this a problem? <---<<
Not really, because all that FRACTINT.CFG stuff is going away anyway.
So, the comment feature of the FRACTINT.CFG file works for some lines and not for others.
Try a comment without spaces.
Its great to still be able to add arbitrary resolutions.
"resolutions" are a misnomer in a windowed environment. The whole concept of a video resolution is outdated. The only thing that matters is the size of your rendered image. When the code is moved to wxWidgets, there will be the usual scroll bars and whatnot.
to 1600x1200. You apparently interrogate the current screen resolution to see if it will support each Win32 GDI Video resolution in the FRACTINT.CFG file plus its containing window border.
Yes, because there are no scroll bars yet. The requested "resolution" plus window decorations has to fit on the visible screen at the moment. -- "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/>
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