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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:52:40 +0200
From: "Mike Gorchak"
Subject: Batch of the QNX6 fixes for the SDL
1. Updated readme.QNX
2. Fixed crashes during intensive window updating under fast machines (got over 200 rectangles for update).
3. Fixed double-buffered fullscreen modes, now it works as needed.
4. Fixed Photon detection algorithm.
5. Fixed HWSURFACE update function.
6. Added SDL_PHOTON_FULLSCREEN_REFRESH environment variable support for control refresh rates under Photon.
7. Added 640x400 fullscreen mode emulation via 640x480 (if videodriver not supports original 640x400 mode of course) shifted by 40 vertical pixels from begin, to center it. It's needed for some old DOS games which ran in doubled 320x200 mode.
8. Added available video ram amount support.
8. Added hardware surface allocation/deallocation support if current videomode and videodriver supports it.
9. Added hardware filling support.
10. Added hardware blits support (simple and colorkeyed).
And I've added to testvidinfo test color-keyed blits benchmark (maybe need to add alpha blits benchmark too ?). Currently Photon not supporting any alpha hardware blittings (all drivers lack of alpha blitting code support, only software alpha blitting exist in photon, which is hundreds times slowest than the SDL's one). So I've not added the alpha support. I suppose new QNX 6.3 will have the hardware alpha support, so when it will be done, I'll add alpha support.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:22:21 +0000 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_SetTimer</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Time" HREF="time.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_RemoveTimer" HREF="sdlremovetimer.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SDL Library Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlremovetimer.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLSETTIMER" ></A >SDL_SetTimer</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN8557" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_SetTimer -- Set a callback to run after the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN8560" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN8561" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_SetTimer</B ></CODE >(Uint32 interval, SDL_TimerCallback callback);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="SDLTIMERCALLBACK" ></A ><H2 >Callback</H2 ><P >/* Function prototype for the timer callback function */ typedef Uint32 (*SDL_TimerCallback)(Uint32 interval);</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN8570" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Set a callback to run after the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed. The callback function is passed the current timer interval and returns the next timer interval. If the returned value is the same as the one passed in, the periodic alarm continues, otherwise a new alarm is scheduled.</P ><P >To cancel a currently running timer, call <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_SetTimer(0, NULL);</TT ></P ><P >The timer callback function may run in a different thread than your main constant, and so shouldn't call any functions from within itself.</P ><P >The maximum resolution of this timer is 10 ms, which means that if you request a 16 ms timer, your callback will run approximately 20 ms later on an unloaded system. If you wanted to set a flag signaling a frame update at 30 frames per second (every 33 ms), you might set a timer for 30 ms (see example below).</P ><P >If you use this function, you need to pass <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >SDL_INIT_TIMER</TT > to <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Init()</TT >.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >This function is kept for compatibility but has been superseded by the new timer functions <A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" >SDL_AddTimer</A > and <A HREF="sdlremovetimer.html" >SDL_RemoveTimer</A > which support multiple timers.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN8584" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >SDL_SetTimer((33/10)*10, my_callback);</PRE ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN8588" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_AddTimer</TT ></A ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlremovetimer.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_RemoveTimer</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="time.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >