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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:35:51 +0200 From: Max Horn Subject: [Patch]: Improved menu code for SDLMain.m the attached patch improves the menu setup for SDL apps built without a .nib file. On 10.3, the application menus are empty with the current SDL CVS version; after this patch, a proper app & window menu, with "About", "Hide", "Quit", "Minimize" etc. entries are visible, just like with the .nib enabled applications. This *should* work on 10.2 and even 10.1, but I can't guarantee it, so somebody should test there, ideally. I also changed the way setupWorkingDirectory works by making use of the Bundle APIs, that results in (IMO) less hackish code. Finally, I added some "static" keywords to ensure that certain local functions are not exported (that's just a paranoia change, I guess: never pollute linker namespaces if you can avoid it).
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:28:12 +0000
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  Using SDL with PicoGUI
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- Originally contributed by Micah Dowty <micahjd@users.sourceforge.net>

PicoGUI is a scalable GUI system with a unique architecture, primarily focused
on scalability to various embedded systems. You can find more information
including a FAQ at http://picogui.org

To use the patch:

  1. When compiling, add the "--enable-video-picogui" switch to ./configure

  2. When running your program, ensure that the picogui driver for SDL
     is in use by setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable 
     to "picogui".

  3. The program must also be linked to the C client library for PicoGUI
     (libpgui.so). If the program is being compiled with a patched SDL 
     installed this should be done automatically. If you want to use an
     existing binary with PicoGUI, you can set the LD_PRELOAD environment
     variable to the path of your libpgui.so file.

Capabilities:

  So far only basic functionality is provided on true color (linear16/24/32)
  devices. Accessing a memory mapped bitmap, updating the display, and handling
  mouse/keyboard input. This functionality has been tested with several
  applications, including mplayer, Xine, sldroids, and Abuse.

TODO list:

  - YUV overlays will be helpful for watching video on set top boxes or other
    embedded devices that have some graphics acceleration hardware

  - Account for rotated bitmap storage in pgserver

  - Support for hiding or changing the cursor

  - The display should be centered when the SDL application is smaller
    than the PicoGUI panel

  - Fullscreen or any other special modes

  - Support for indexed and grayscale modes

  - Probably much more...

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