Author Topic: Video Modes and Colour Depth (Read 2255 times)

Xander314 · « **on:** June 13, 2011, 04:55:32 pm »

For a video tutorial I am making on windowing and video modes, I was wondering what happens when we give our video mode something like 11bit colour.

It is invalid for fullscreen mode, but what happens for windowed applications?

Also, to clarify, when a bad video mode is passed to the window constructor, does it revert to sf::VideoMode::GetDesktopMode()?

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2011, 05:49:19 pm »

If the pixel depth is not directly supported, the closest valid one is chosen.

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Also, to clarify, when a bad video mode is passed to the window constructor, does it revert to sf::VideoMode::GetDesktopMode()?

Only in fullscreen. In windowed mode you can use any width/height and there's always a valid depth that can be used.

Xander314 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2011, 05:58:27 pm »

So even in windowed mode, the bit depth is corrected to 8/16/32 or something?

Laurent · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2011, 06:08:56 pm »

Xander314 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2011, 06:17:34 pm »

Thanks