[Pipmak-Devel] getscreenmodes ideas

[Andrea V. <and...@gm...>]

Hi Christian,

Thank you to have included in Pipmak my little contribution!

About the getscreenmodes:

I have used the array structure {{w=1024,h=768},...} because I thought
that it was little simpler for the user who aren't a very "lua expert".
I believe that the use of "unpack" could confuse newbies:

  pipmak.setscreensize(unpack(modes[i])

What do you think about to use your syntax but adding another calling schema
to setscreensize:

  setscreensize(boolean)
  setscreensize(number,number)
  setscreensize(table)

the last syntax should permit to write:

  pipmak.setscreensize(modes[i])

and unpack will be performed by setscreensize itself.

remain the use of unpack, if I want to read (for testing) modes:

  w,h=unpack(modes[i])

or

  w=modes[i][0]
  h=modes[i][1]

another idea:

  n=pipmak.getscreenmodes()  --return number of possible modes
  w,h=pipmak.screenmode(i)   --return modes i

in this way I haven't to use an array, if I use a wrong "i"
(i.e.: n=10 and I use i=12 or i=-1)
pipmak.screenmode(i) will return the current screensize
so I could write:

  pipmak.setscreensize(pipmak.screenmode(i))

What do you think?

Bye

Andrea