How to retrieve the current gfx config?

[Antoni Gual]

For gfx programs in fullscreen mode this is not needed, but before setting a windowed mode, how can I know the user's graphics settings so i can set the same color depth? A portable way, if it's possible...

[aetherfox]

I doubt there is a portable way, but as I remember there is an API call to check that...head over to MSDN or use API spy if you've got Visual Studio installed.

[1000101]

If you're using SDL, then you can use the SDL_GetVideoInfo function to return the current GUI environment.

Since SDL is cross-platform (Win32/Linux/BeOS/MacOS/etc), it works on all systems. It doesn't work in DOS being as there is no DOS port of SDL and the DOS port of FreeBASIC is a joke, right? Someones just doing it "because" and not actually expecting people to use it right?

[Jofers]

Apparrently Lillo's watching this forum, cause "screenlist" was just added

[Antoni Gual]

AFAIK screenlist lists the available modes in the card, very useful for fullscreen programs setting their own mode, but does'n tell what mode was selected at the start of the program, this would be useful for windowed programs.