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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> |
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date | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:45:58 +0000 |
parents | e5bc29de3f0a |
children | 546f7c1eb755 |
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.TH "SDL_SetAlpha" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" .SH "NAME" SDL_SetAlpha\- Adjust the alpha properties of a surface .SH "SYNOPSIS" .PP \fB#include "SDL\&.h" .sp \fBint \fBSDL_SetAlpha\fP\fR(\fBSDL_Surface *surface, Uint32 flag, Uint8 alpha\fR); .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP .RS \fBNote: .PP 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\&. .RE .PP \fBSDL_SetAlpha\fP is used for setting the per-surface alpha value and/or enabling and disabling alpha blending\&. .PP 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\&. .PP .RS \fBNote: .PP 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\&. .RE .PP Alpha effects surface blitting in the following ways: .TP 20 RGBA->RGB with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP The source is alpha-blended with the destination, using the alpha channel\&. \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP and the per-surface alpha are ignored\&. .TP 20 RGBA->RGB without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP The RGB data is copied from the source\&. The source alpha channel and the per-surface alpha value are ignored\&. .TP 20 RGB->RGBA with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP 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\&. .TP 20 RGB->RGBA without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP 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\&. .TP 20 RGBA->RGBA with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP 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\&. .TP 20 RGBA->RGBA without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP 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\&. .TP 20 RGB->RGB with \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP 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\&. .TP 20 RGB->RGB without \fBSDL_SRCALPHA\fP The RGB data is copied from the source\&. If \fBSDL_SRCCOLORKEY\fP is set, only the pixels not matching the colorkey value are copied\&. .PP .RS \fBNote: .PP 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\&. .PP Also note that per-pixel and per-surface alpha cannot be combined; the per-pixel alpha is always used if available .RE .SH "RETURN VALUE" .PP This function returns \fB0\fR, or \fB-1\fR if there was an error\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fI\fBSDL_MapRGBA\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_GetRGBA\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_DisplayFormatAlpha\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_BlitSurface\fP\fR ...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01