Re: [Enigma-devel] 320x240 resolution

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From: "Clarence Risher" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 1:49 PM
Subject: [Enigma-devel] 320x240 resolution


> A while back I put a bit of effort into porting enigma to a platform
> with a 320x240 display.  A lot of the graphics code is very adamant
> about 640x480 being the min resolution so I had to butcher it pretty
> badly.  With the new version out, I loathe the prospect of trying to
> merge my fork with the new code.  Is there any chance of a [near]
> future version of enigma officially supporting 320x240?

May I enquire what platform it is that you are porting to that uses 320x240?
QVGA is a fairly small screen resolution.

Obviously the simplest solution would be simple scaling. However, if you are 
talking about a portable platform with a small display (Such as QVGA WM5 
devices) then that solution would be far less than ideal. (The fonts 
mutilated and halved in size could make it very difficult to read.)

For the in-game graphics obviously simple scaling would work (although 
manually created and tweaked image files are better).  But the in-game text, 
and especially the menu system have more difficulties. Some of the new menus 
are full (The level information screen already leaves out some info on VGA 
resolution IIRC.)

I'm sure you've already  though of all that.

I would say that it seems unlikely that Enigma will be natively support 
320x240 in the near future. However, if somebody did the work and created a 
clean patch to add support for QVGA resolution, I'm confident it would be 
considered. If you were willing to put the effort into making your port an 
official port (merging needed changes into the tree) then that would be the 
ideal solution, and I would strongly doubt any current developers would 
object unless the necessary changes create an excessive maintenance burden.