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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:14:00 +0200 From: "Eckhard Stolberg" Subject: Controller names in SDL for Windows I'm working on an Atari 2600 emulator for different systems that uses the SDL. Some time ago someone created an adaptor that lets you use your old Atari controllers with your computer through the USB port. Some of the Atari controllers require special handling by the emulator, so it would be nice, if it would be possible to detect if any of the controllers connected to the computer is this adaptor. SDL would allow that with the SDL_JoystickName function, but unfortunately it doesn't work properly on Windows. On Linux and MacOSX this function returns the name of the controller, but on Windows you'll only get the name of the joystick driver. Most joysticks nowadays use the generic Microsoft driver, so they all return the same name. In an old MSDN article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarinput/html/msdn_extdirect.asp) Microsoft describes how to read out the OEM controller names from the registry. I have implemented this for the SDL controller handler on Windows, and now reading the joystick name works properly there too.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:45:58 +0000 (2004-08-21)
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>Chapter 11. CD-ROM</H1
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><A
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>SDL_CDNumDrives</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns the number of CD-ROM drives on the system.</DT
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>SDL_CDName</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns a human-readable, system-dependent identifier for the CD-ROM.</DT
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>SDL_CDOpen</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Opens a CD-ROM drive for access.</DT
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>SDL_CDStatus</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Returns the current status of the given drive.</DT
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>SDL_CDPlay</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Play a CD</DT
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>SDL_CDPlayTracks</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Play the given CD track(s)</DT
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>SDL_CDPause</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Pauses a CDROM</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Resumes a CDROM</DT
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>SDL_CDStop</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Stops a CDROM</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Ejects a CDROM</DT
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>SDL_CDClose</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Closes a SDL_CD handle</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;CDROM Drive Information</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;CD Track Information Structure</DT
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>SDL supports audio control of up to 32 local CD-ROM drives at once.</P
><P
>You use this API to perform all the basic functions of a CD player,
including listing the tracks, playing, stopping, and ejecting the CD-ROM.
(Currently, multi-changer CD drives are not supported.)</P
><P
>Before you call any of the SDL CD-ROM functions, you must first call
"<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_CDROM)</TT
>", which scans the system for
CD-ROM drives, and sets the program up for audio control.  Check the 
return code, which should be <SPAN
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>0</SPAN
>, to see if there 
were any errors in starting up.</P
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>After you have initialized the library, you can find out how many drives
are available using the <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_CDNumDrives()</TT
> function.  
The first drive listed is the system default CD-ROM drive.  After you have 
chosen a drive, and have opened it with <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_CDOpen()</TT
>, 
you can check the status and start playing if there's a CD in the drive.</P
><P
>A CD-ROM is organized into one or more tracks, each consisting of a certain
number of "frames".  Each frame is ~2K in size, and at normal playing speed,
a CD plays 75 frames per second.  SDL works with the number of frames on a
CD, but this can easily be converted to the more familiar minutes/seconds
format by using the <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>FRAMES_TO_MSF()</TT
> macro.</P
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