Hello all,

So I'm new to Allegro and I'm having a problem seeing the display. Here's a picture of my desktop to help illustrate the problem:

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Alternative Link: http://i.imgur.com/tlhhW.png

As you can see in the image, I'm running a demo in Allegro 5 in MS Visual Studio 10. I can see the display for the game in the taskbar, but when I click on it to maximize it, nothing happens.

This is on my HP laptop with a Radeon HD 6470M with switchable graphics. When I switch the graphics over to the low-power Intel integrated graphics, the allegro display comes up fine.

Is this a problem with my Radeon drivers or allegro? I've re-installed the latest AMD display drivers and it hasn't helped.

Try switching the demo to use OpenGL by adding al_set_new_display_flags(ALLEGRO_OPENGL) before the al_create_display() call. See if that works.

It's probably being positioned off screen.

Try playing with al_get_window_position() and al_set_window_position().

Ah, I had someone have the problem Matthew describes actually... I didn't investigate it because I'm not sure where to begin. Do you have another monitor connected by any chance?

If the default monitor starts at (-screen_w,0) or (screen_w,0) instead of (0,0) perhaps Allegro is centering it incorrectly. i.e., If Allegro always uses (screen_w/2 - display_w/2, screen_h/2 - display_h/2) as the starting spot, it could be wrong.

Just a guess. Seems like the only reasonable explanation.

Thanks for the quick replies!

It seems Matthew was correct; the display is being positioned off-screen.

When I called al_get_window_position(display, x_test, y_test), the x and y positions were:
x_test, y_test = -320 32792

When I called al_set_window_position(display, 0, 0), the display is positioned in the upper left corner of the screen and everything is fine.

I don't understand why the default x and y values would be -320 and 32792, though. That seems pretty weird. I guess I should just always reposition the window during the initialization of the display.

Thanks again!

Can you run ex_monitorinfo and paste the results of that here?

Sure. It actually took a little doing because I couldn't get common.c to compile, but I just printed the info to the console instead.

Here is the output:

1 adapters found...
Adapter 0
(-858993460, -858993460) - (-858993460, -858993460)
Available fullscreen display modes:
Mode 0: 320 x 200, 60 Hz
Mode 1: 320 x 200, 40 Hz
Mode 2: 320 x 240, 60 Hz
Mode 3: 320 x 240, 40 Hz
Mode 4: 400 x 300, 60 Hz
Mode 5: 400 x 300, 40 Hz
Mode 6: 512 x 384, 60 Hz
Mode 7: 512 x 384, 40 Hz
Mode 8: 640 x 400, 60 Hz
Mode 9: 640 x 400, 40 Hz
Mode 10: 640 x 480, 60 Hz
Mode 11: 640 x 480, 40 Hz
Mode 12: 800 x 600, 60 Hz
Mode 13: 800 x 600, 40 Hz
Mode 14: 1024 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 15: 1024 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 16: 1280 x 600, 60 Hz
Mode 17: 1280 x 600, 40 Hz
Mode 18: 1280 x 720, 60 Hz
Mode 19: 1280 x 720, 40 Hz
Mode 20: 1280 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 21: 1280 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 22: 1360 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 23: 1360 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 24: 1366 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 25: 1366 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 26: 320 x 200, 60 Hz
Mode 27: 320 x 200, 40 Hz
Mode 28: 320 x 240, 60 Hz
Mode 29: 320 x 240, 40 Hz
Mode 30: 400 x 300, 60 Hz
Mode 31: 400 x 300, 40 Hz
Mode 32: 512 x 384, 60 Hz
Mode 33: 512 x 384, 40 Hz
Mode 34: 640 x 400, 60 Hz
Mode 35: 640 x 400, 40 Hz
Mode 36: 640 x 480, 60 Hz
Mode 37: 640 x 480, 40 Hz
Mode 38: 800 x 600, 60 Hz
Mode 39: 800 x 600, 40 Hz
Mode 40: 1024 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 41: 1024 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 42: 1280 x 600, 60 Hz
Mode 43: 1280 x 600, 40 Hz
Mode 44: 1280 x 720, 60 Hz
Mode 45: 1280 x 720, 40 Hz
Mode 46: 1280 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 47: 1280 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 48: 1360 x 768, 60 Hz
Mode 49: 1360 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 50: 1366 x 768, 40 Hz
Mode 51: 1366 x 768, 60 Hz

Those numbers are 0xcccccccc, so something isn't initialized. It's possible this has already been fixed in 5.1 SVN, but I don't know.