Re: [Enigma-devel] 320x240 resolution

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Tacvek wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clarence Risher" <address@hidden>
> > 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?

Clarence, can you publish screenshots from your port - some levels and 
the menus?

> 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.

I agree to Tacvek's statements.

-- Ronald