Re: [Enigma-devel] Odd screen resolutions

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi

Till Harbaum:
> now that i am satisfied with the tiltstick in enigma it's time to switch to
> a device that's truly "tiltable".  Thus i've started to work on the Maemo
> port of enigma for the nokia internet tablets.
>
> These devices have a screen resolution of 800x480 in fullscreen
> and 720x420 in non-fuillscreen mode. Enigma of course runs fine
> in 800x480 when using only 640x480 pixels. The guy who started working
> on enigma for maemo even managed to get some screens to work at 
> 800x480 like e.g. the level selection screen. But the main game screen
> is a little bit garbled an the game itself is still 640x480. In non-fullscreen 
> mode the statusbar is off the screen to he bottom as visible here:
> http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2007/enigma/

The link does not work.

> What do you think is the right way to cope with this situation? Is it possible
> to have the main game screen run on a non 4:3 screen? How difficult
> will it be to switch the game from the 20x13(15) layout to something
> different? Does this make any sense at all?

No other layouts besides 20x13 make currently sense as many levels 
depend on this size.

> And what about the non-fullscreen mode? IMHO this might work if the status
> bar is being moved to the right of the screen. The most dificult part there 
> will probably be the scrolling text.
>
> What do you think?

I did add a bunch of new screen resolutions for 1.10 and Clarence did 
add 320x240 support. Starting with new screen solutions in the already 
closed 1.0* branch is no useful idea, as you would have to do it again 
for the 1.10 release. My recommendation is to stick to full screen mode 
for a 1.01 port.

Concerning the window mode it should be possible to display the clock 
and the inventory on the right side. I would help you after finishing 
the critical parts of the upcomming 1.10 release.

Greets,

Ronald