EnumResolutions (Windows)

[edit:] updated source 8/8-05

So friendly EDI from Etheral Darkness Interactive (a.k.a. Edi Did It) asked me if I could make an enumerator for resolutions, since on my little lappy I get repeated resolutions (like 4 "different" 800x600 where two is 16bpp and two is 32bpp) and we were both curious on why since repeated resolutions are filtered.

After playing around with CreateFile/WriteFile for an hour, I gave up and returned to good old std::ofstream for outputing the data. And after another hour I gave up on trying to find out why I have two 16bpp and two 32bpp - and no they don't have different refresh rates, the refresh rate and display flags are the same for those. This data wouldn't be used anyway...

So basicly, I had these requirements:

Find the resolutions, in the form: Width, Height, Bits per pixel.

Sort them in a user expected way.

To solve the first requirement I used EnumDisplaySettings as EDI had suggested.
To solve the second requirement I used a std::set of resolution structs, providing my own compare by overloading operator <. Note: I chose not to make it a member so i could construct it using a initialization list. Saves number of keys I have to press to write the code and makes the struct a simple variable holder :P

Well I did it, might as well share =)
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#define VC_EXTRALEAN#include #include #include #include #include #include struct Resolution{	int width, height, bpp;};std::ostream& operator << ( std::ostream& out, const Resolution& res ){	const char tab = 'x';	out << res.width << tab << res.height << tab << res.bpp;	return out;}bool operator < ( const Resolution& lhs, const Resolution& rhs ){	if( lhs.width < rhs.width )		return true;	else	if( lhs.width == rhs.width )		return lhs.bpp < rhs.bpp;	return false;}typedef std::set ResolutionHolder;ResolutionHolder FindResolutions(){	DEVMODE devmode;	devmode.dmSize = sizeof(DEVMODE);	devmode.dmDriverExtra = 0;	DWORD modeNum = 0;	ResolutionHolder result;	while( EnumDisplaySettings( NULL, modeNum++, &devmode ) != 0 )	{		Resolution res = { devmode.dmPelsWidth, devmode.dmPelsHeight, devmode.dmBitsPerPel };		result.insert( res );	}	return result;}int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE /*hInstance*/,                     HINSTANCE /*hPrevInstance*/,                     LPTSTR    /*lpCmdLine*/,                     int       /*nCmdShow*/){	ResolutionHolder resolutions = FindResolutions();	/* Here you have 'resolutions' full of sorted resolutions! =D */	// output for your pleasure	std::ofstream file("resolutions.txt");	const char* tab = " ";	file << "Width" << tab << "Height" << tab << "BPP" << std::endl;	std::copy( resolutions.begin(), resolutions.end(), std::ostream_iterator(file, "\n") );	return 0;}

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