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More descriptive texts. New defaults for cycleup, prebuffer and blocksize.

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Imported-from: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dosbox/code-0/dosbox/trunk@3591
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Peter Veenstra 2010-05-04 14:43:12 +00:00
parent 79f692235a
commit 2e0b34ee0f
1 changed files with 19 additions and 13 deletions
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@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
Pmulti = secprop->Add_multi("scaler",Property::Changeable::Always," ");
Pmulti->SetValue("normal2x");
Pmulti->Set_help("Scaler used to enlarge/enhance low resolution modes. If 'forced' is appended,the scaler will be used even if the result might not be desired.");
Pmulti->Set_help("Scaler used to enlarge/enhance low resolution modes.\n"
" If 'forced' is appended, then the scaler will be used even if the result might not be desired.");
Pstring = Pmulti->GetSection()->Add_string("type",Property::Changeable::Always,"normal2x");
const char *scalers[] = {
@ -410,11 +411,13 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
Pmulti_remain = secprop->Add_multiremain("cycles",Property::Changeable::Always," ");
Pmulti_remain->Set_help(
"Amount of instructions DOSBox tries to emulate each millisecond. Setting this value too high results in sound dropouts and lags. Cycles can be set in 3 ways:\n"
"Amount of instructions DOSBox tries to emulate each millisecond.\n"
"Setting this value too high results in sound dropouts and lags.\n"
"Cycles can be set in 3 ways:\n"
" 'auto' tries to guess what a game needs.\n"
" It usually works, but can fail for certain games.\n"
" 'fixed #number' will set a fixed amount of cycles. This is what you usually need if 'auto' fails.\n"
" (Example: fixed 4000)\n"
" (Example: fixed 4000).\n"
" 'max' will allocate as much cycles as your computer is able to handle.\n");
const char* cyclest[] = { "auto","fixed","max","%u",0 };
@ -424,9 +427,9 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
Pstring = Pmulti_remain->GetSection()->Add_string("parameters",Property::Changeable::Always,"");
Pint = secprop->Add_int("cycleup",Property::Changeable::Always,500);
Pint = secprop->Add_int("cycleup",Property::Changeable::Always,10);
Pint->SetMinMax(1,1000000);
Pint->Set_help("Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.");
Pint->Set_help("Amount of cycles to decrease/increase with keycombo.(CTRL-F11/CTRL-F12)");
Pint = secprop->Add_int("cycledown",Property::Changeable::Always,20);
Pint->SetMinMax(1,1000000);
@ -448,15 +451,15 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
Pint->Set_help("Mixer sample rate, setting any device's rate higher than this will probably lower their sound quality.");
const char *blocksizes[] = {
"2048", "4096", "8192", "1024", "512", "256", 0};
Pint = secprop->Add_int("blocksize",Property::Changeable::OnlyAtStart,2048);
"1024", "2048", "4096", "8192", "512", "256", 0};
Pint = secprop->Add_int("blocksize",Property::Changeable::OnlyAtStart,1024);
Pint->Set_values(blocksizes);
Pint->Set_help("Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering but sound will also be more lagged.");
Pint = secprop->Add_int("prebuffer",Property::Changeable::OnlyAtStart,10);
Pint = secprop->Add_int("prebuffer",Property::Changeable::OnlyAtStart,20);
Pint->SetMinMax(0,100);
Pint->Set_help("How many milliseconds of data to keep on top of the blocksize.");
secprop=control->AddSection_prop("midi",&MIDI_Init,true);//done
secprop->AddInitFunction(&MPU401_Init,true);//done
@ -472,7 +475,8 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
Pstring->Set_help("Device that will receive the MIDI data from MPU-401.");
Pstring = secprop->Add_string("midiconfig",Property::Changeable::WhenIdle,"");
Pstring->Set_help("Special configuration options for the device driver. This is usually the id of the device you want to use. See README for details.");
Pstring->Set_help("Special configuration options for the device driver. This is usually the id of the device you want to use.\n"
" See the README/Manual for more details.");
#if C_DEBUG
secprop=control->AddSection_prop("debug",&DEBUG_Init);
@ -583,10 +587,11 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
"4axis_2 (supports one joystick, second joystick used),\n"
"fcs (Thrustmaster), ch (CH Flightstick).\n"
"none disables joystick emulation.\n"
"auto chooses emulation depending on real joystick(s).");
"auto chooses emulation depending on real joystick(s).\n"
"(Remember to reset dosbox's mapperfile if you saved it earlier)");
Pbool = secprop->Add_bool("timed",Property::Changeable::WhenIdle,true);
Pbool->Set_help("enable timed intervals for axis. (false is old style behaviour).");
Pbool->Set_help("enable timed intervals for axis. Experiment with this option, if your joystick drifts (away).");
Pbool = secprop->Add_bool("autofire",Property::Changeable::WhenIdle,false);
Pbool->Set_help("continuously fires as long as you keep the button pressed.");
@ -672,9 +677,10 @@ void DOSBOX_Init(void) {
secline=control->AddSection_line("autoexec",&AUTOEXEC_Init);
MSG_Add("AUTOEXEC_CONFIGFILE_HELP",
"Lines in this section will be run at startup.\n"
"You can put your MOUNT lines here.\n"
);
MSG_Add("CONFIGFILE_INTRO",
"# This is the configurationfile for DOSBox %s.\n"
"# This is the configurationfile for DOSBox %s. (Please use the latest version of DOSBox)\n"
"# Lines starting with a # are commentlines and are ignored by DOSBox.\n"
"# They are used to (briefly) document the effect of each option.\n");
MSG_Add("CONFIG_SUGGESTED_VALUES", "Possible values");