Re: [Bug-gnubg] Win32 3D build Sep 15th

[Holger]

At 19:37 15.09.2003 +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> On Mon 15 Sep 2003 (19:26 +0200), Holger wrote:
> > At 18:40 15.09.2003 +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> > >I have no idea why there's 44, 35, 99, you name it. It's a nightmare
> > >of fixed constants which I assume are related to board dimensions.
> >
> > Yes, in render.c it's very difficult to find out where the numbers came
> > from. So here I only replaced a few values with defines that were more or
> > less obvious. But this should have made no impact since I didn't change 
> the
> > values, but one.
> > Maybe this line may turn out as the culprit (had a value od 81):
> >      FillArea( puch, nStride, prd->nSize * BOARD_WIDTH, prd->nSize *
> > BOARD_HEIGHT /*81?*/,
>
> That probably needs to be (BOARD_HEIGHT - 1). I think 44 is
> (BOARD_HEIGHT / 2 + 3), 35 might be (BOARD_HEIGHT / - 6), 99 is
> probably (BOARD_WIDTH - 9) etc. since there seems to be 3 bytes per

I'll change it back to 81 (that is, BOARD_HEIGHT - 1). Hopefully that's 
already it.

> point. But overall, it needs whoever coded this to put in values
> defined in terms of the fundamental dimensions. Otherwise we'd be just
> guessing.

Who knows about this?

Regards,

        Holger