NAME

       vga_getmodenumber - return a number for the given video mode

SYNOPSIS

       #include <vga.h>

       int vga_getmodenumber(char *name);

DESCRIPTION

       The  function  parses  *name  and  tries  to  find a videomode corresponding on it.  *name is parsed case
       insensitive and should be either an integer string just giving a mode number or consist of  a  capital  G
       followed  by  the  amount  of  x  pixels, followed by a lower case x, followed by the amount of y pixels,
       followed by a lower case x.  Finally the number of different  colors  is  appended.  Here  the  shortcuts
       32K,64K,16M,  and 16M4 are used for 32768, 65536, and 16777216 are used. The last refers also to 16777216
       which are store in 4 bytes (highest address byte unused) for easier screen access.

       For unsupported values or the string "PROMPT" the value -1 is returned. Also a irritating  error  message
       is printed to stdout. This is used during parsing the SVGALIB_DEFAULT_MODE environment variable. Probably
       it should not be used for anything else.

EXAMPLE

       vga_getmodenumber("G640x480x256") returns 10.

SEE ALSO

       svgalib(7),  vgagl(7),  libvga.config(5),  vgatest(6),  vga_hasmode(3),  vga_modeinfo(3), vga_setmode(3),
       vga_lastmodenumber(3), vga_getcurrentmode(3), vga_getdefaultmode(3), vga_getmodename(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The  exact  source  of  the
       referenced function as well as of the original documentation is unknown.

       It   is   very   likely   that   both   are   at  least  to  some  extent  are  due  to  Harm  Hanemaayer
       <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.

       Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the original author  and  will  happily
       accept any additions or corrections to this first version of the svgalib manual.

Svgalib 1.3.0                                     8 April 1998                              vga_getmodenumber(3)