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First shot at new audio data types (int32 and float32). Notable changes: - Converters between types are autogenerated. Instead of making multiple passes over the data with seperate filters for endianess, size, signedness, etc, converting between data types is always one specialized filter. This simplifies SDL_BuildAudioCVT(), which otherwise had a million edge cases with the new types, and makes the actually conversions more CPU cache friendly. Left a stub for adding specific optimized versions of these routines (SSE/MMX/Altivec, assembler, etc) - Autogenerated converters are built by SDL/src/audio/sdlgenaudiocvt.pl. This does not need to be run unless tweaking the code, and thus doesn't need integration into the build system. - Went through all the drivers and tried to weed out all the "Uint16" references that are better specified with the new SDL_AudioFormat typedef. - Cleaned out a bunch of hardcoded bitwise magic numbers and replaced them with new SDL_AUDIO_* macros. - Added initial float32 and int32 support code. Theoretically, existing drivers will push these through converters to get the data they want to feed to the hardware. Still TODO: - Optimize and debug new converters. - Update the CoreAudio backend to accept float32 data directly. - Other backends, too? - SDL_LoadWAV() needs to be updated to support int32 and float32 .wav files (both of which exist and can be generated by 'sox' for testing purposes). - Update the mixer to handle new datatypes. - Optionally update SDL_sound and SDL_mixer, etc.
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1 .TH "SDL_SetAlpha" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01" "SDL" "SDL API Reference"
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2 .SH "NAME"
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3 SDL_SetAlpha\- Adjust the alpha properties of a surface
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4 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
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5 .PP
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6 \fB#include "SDL\&.h"
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7 .sp
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8 \fBint \fBSDL_SetAlpha\fP\fR(\fBSDL_Surface *surface, Uint32 flag, Uint8 alpha\fR);
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9 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
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10 .PP
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11 .RS
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12 \fBNote:
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13 .PP
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14 This function and the semantics of SDL alpha blending have changed since version 1\&.1\&.4\&. Up until version 1\&.1\&.5, an alpha value of 0 was considered opaque and a value of 255 was considered transparent\&. This has now been inverted: 0 (\fBSDL_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT\fP) is now considered transparent and 255 (\fBSDL_ALPHA_OPAQUE\fP) is now considered opaque\&.
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15 .RE
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16 .PP
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17 \fBSDL_SetAlpha\fP is used for setting the per-surface alpha value and/or enabling and disabling alpha blending\&.
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19 The\fBsurface\fR parameter specifies which surface whose alpha attributes you wish to adjust\&. \fBflags\fR is used to specify whether alpha blending should be used (\fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP) and whether the surface should use RLE acceleration for blitting (\fBSDL_RLEACCEL\fP)\&. \fBflags\fR can be an OR\&'d combination of these two options, one of these options or 0\&. If \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP is not passed as a flag then all alpha information is ignored when blitting the surface\&. The \fBalpha\fR parameter is the per-surface alpha value; a surface need not have an alpha channel to use per-surface alpha and blitting can still be accelerated with \fBSDL_RLEACCEL\fP\&.
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20 .PP
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21 .RS
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22 \fBNote:
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23 .PP
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24 The per-surface alpha value of 128 is considered a special case and is optimised, so it\&'s much faster than other per-surface values\&.
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25 .RE
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26 .PP
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27 Alpha effects surface blitting in the following ways:
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28 .TP 20
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29 RGBA->RGB with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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30 The source is alpha-blended with the destination, using the alpha channel\&. \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP and the per-surface alpha are ignored\&.
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31 .TP 20
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32 RGBA->RGB without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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33 The RGB data is copied from the source\&. The source alpha channel and the per-surface alpha value are ignored\&.
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34 .TP 20
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35 RGB->RGBA with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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36 The source is alpha-blended with the destination using the per-surface alpha value\&. If \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is set, only the pixels not matching the colorkey value are copied\&. The alpha channel of the copied pixels is set to opaque\&.
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37 .TP 20
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38 RGB->RGBA without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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39 The RGB data is copied from the source and the alpha value of the copied pixels is set to opaque\&. If \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is set, only the pixels not matching the colorkey value are copied\&.
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40 .TP 20
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41 RGBA->RGBA with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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42 The source is alpha-blended with the destination using the source alpha channel\&. The alpha channel in the destination surface is left untouched\&. \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is ignored\&.
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43 .TP 20
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44 RGBA->RGBA without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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45 The RGBA data is copied to the destination surface\&. If \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is set, only the pixels not matching the colorkey value are copied\&.
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46 .TP 20
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47 RGB->RGB with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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48 The source is alpha-blended with the destination using the per-surface alpha value\&. If \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is set, only the pixels not matching the colorkey value are copied\&.
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49 .TP 20
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50 RGB->RGB without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP
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51 The RGB data is copied from the source\&. If \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is set, only the pixels not matching the colorkey value are copied\&.
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52 .PP
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53 .RS
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54 \fBNote:
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56 Note that RGBA->RGBA blits (with SDL_SRCALPHA set) keep the alpha of the destination surface\&. This means that you cannot compose two arbitrary RGBA surfaces this way and get the result you would expect from "overlaying" them; the destination alpha will work as a mask\&.
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57 .PP
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58 Also note that per-pixel and per-surface alpha cannot be combined; the per-pixel alpha is always used if available
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59 .RE
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60 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
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61 .PP
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62 This function returns \fB0\fR, or \fB-1\fR if there was an error\&.
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63 .SH "SEE ALSO"
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64 .PP
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65 \fI\fBSDL_MapRGBA\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_GetRGBA\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_DisplayFormatAlpha\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_BlitSurface\fP\fR
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66 ...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01