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To: sdl@libsdl.org From: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:13:20 +0100 Subject: [SDL] Fix for opening documents on Mac OS X < 10.4 The current code in SDLMain.m that transforms documents opened from the Finder into command-line arguments (introduced in revision 1.14, 2005-08-11) uses the methods -[NSString lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:] and -[NSString getCString:maxLength:encoding:], which are only available in Mac OS X 10.4. Compiling this code on 10.3 produces warnings, and running it (i.e. starting an SDL application by opening a document) leads to weird behavior which I didn't investigate in detail ("*** -[NSCFString lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:]: selector not recognized" is printed to the console log, and the SDL window never opens). The attached patch removes the offending calls and uses -[NSString UTF8String] instead, which is available everywhere. Tested on 10.3.9, and I see no reason why it shouldn't also work on 10.2 and 10.4. Two further comments: * The comment above the -[SDLMain application: openFile:] implementation says "You need to have a CFBundleDocumentsType section in your Info.plist to get this message, apparently." This is not the case in my experience - it worked just fine with a hand-built bare-bones application consisting only of Test.app/Contents/MacOS/test, without any Info.plist (although you have to press the option and command keys for such an application to accept a dragged file). * I took the liberty of cleaning up another area of SDLMain.m: I changed "CustomApplicationMain (argc, argv)" to "CustomApplicationMain (int argc, char **argv)". This avoids the "type of `argv' defaults to `int'" warnings, and I'm not sure if leaving out the types could cause problems on platforms where an int and a char** aren't of the same size. -Christian
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:45:52 +0000
parents 9867f3d86e44
children f12379c41042
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All:
	Audio rate conversion is only implemented by multiplying or dividing
	by a power of two.  This is a side-effect of the requirement that the
	raw audio buffer size be a power of two, and can hopefully be fixed.
	This means 8 KHz audio converted to 22 KHz ends up being 16 KHz. :-/

	When the implementation is writing directly to video memory the mouse
	cursor doesn't work properly.  Applications which do this should use
	their own mouse cursor and call SDL_ShowCursor(0) to hide the system
	cursor.

Linux:
	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed)

	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

	The AAlib, GGI, and SVGAlib video drivers are not heavily tested.

Win32:
	The MCI driver can't tell if the CD-ROM drive is paused or stopped.

	The SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD flag is not supported on Win32
	(Idea: create a separate DirectInput polling thread)
	The main purpose of this flag is for smooth cursor motion in
	fullscreen environments.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	This requires the ToUnicode() API which is only implemented on
	Windows NT/2000, not on Windows 95/98.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.

	Joysticks are only supported under the Win32 MultiMedia API,
	DirectInput support is not yet implemented.

BeOS:
	BePPC is not supported, apparently not even by Be Inc.

	SDL_WM_GrabInput() is not implemented.
	Does anyone know how to do this?  SDL_WM_GrabInput() is designed
	to prevent the user from switching input and mouse focus away from
	the SDL application.

	Continuous relative mouse motion is not implemented.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) has not been tested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.

MacOS:
	Palette handling isn't implemented in windowed mode yet.

	Audio hasn't been extensively tested, in particular the locking
	isn't implemented and mixer routines may not call malloc() or free()
	because they are called at interrupt time.

	SDL_WM_GrabInput() is not implemented.
	Does anyone know how to do this?  SDL_WM_GrabInput() is designed
	to prevent the user from switching input and mouse focus away from
	the SDL application.

	Continuous relative mouse motion is not implemented.

	SDL_AddTimer() and SDL_RemoveTimer() haven't been implemented yet.

	Not all of the keys are properly recognized on the keyboard.

MacOS X:
	Depth switching for windowed mode isn't implemented yet.
	
	Palette handling isn't implemented in windowed mode yet.
	
	Command-line arguments dialog is not implemented yet.

	Fullscreen drawing has some artifacts.
	
	Fullscreen OpenGL for the software renderer is broken.

	Some OpenGL parameters are not accounted for, for example color bits customization.
	
	Continuous mouse motion perhaps is not as smooth as it should be.

	SDL_WM_GrabInput() is implemented, but it "freezes" the hardware
	cursor in the center of the window/screen.  Also, mouse moved events
	are not generated, and the keyboard cannot be grabbed.

	MacOS X seems to have a broken pthread_cancel() implementation.
	Actually, it just only has one cancellation point defined.
	http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2004/Jun/24/killingapthread.001.txt

FreeBSD:
	pthread_cancel() isn't supported by FreeBSD 3.X, so threads don't
	work on versions of FreeBSD earlier than 4.0.

	The CD-ROM handling doesn't work completely.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed but needs testing)
	
	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

Solaris:
	The joystick functions are not implemented yet.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed but needs testing)
	
	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

IRIX:
	The CD-ROM handling doesn't work completely.

	The joystick functions are not implemented yet.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed but needs testing)
	
	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

EPOC:
    Only Crystal version of Epoc/SymbianOS is currently supported.

    SDL is implemented in static library only. SDL uses static/global
    variables and that is not allowed in EPOC dll libraries.

    Sound is not yet supported.

    Joystick, OpenGL and cdrom is not supported (think about cdrom in a cell phone:-).
    
    No console output screen. Printing to stdout do not have any effect.

QNX:
	Fullscreen switch doesn't work (disabled for now).
 

OpenBSD:  -= NOT YET SUPPORTED =-
	This is reported to work, but I haven't verified this.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed but needs testing)
	
	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

OSF/Tru64:  -= NOT YET SUPPORTED =-
	The audio functions are not implemented yet.

	Joysticks and CD-ROM functions are not implemented yet.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed but needs testing)
	
	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

AIX:  -= NOT YET SUPPORTED =-
	This port has only been tested with AIX 4.3.3

	The OpenGL support doesn't work yet.

	The joystick subsystem isn't implemented yet.

	Endian detection doesn't work yet - needs a unique CPP symbol.

	Wide UNICODE character input (Kanji, etc.) is not yet supported.
	It requires handling of keyboard mapping events and using the XIM
	input translation extension.  I will implement it as requested.
	Latin-1 keyboard input works fine.
	(UPDATE 04/06/2004: this bug is now fixed but needs testing)
	
	The keyboard modifiers are not set to the correct state on startup.

	The AIX port was done by Carsten.Griwodz@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de
	More information on this port is available at:
	http://www.kom.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/~griff/SDL/

AmigaOS:  -= NOT YET SUPPORTED =-
	The OpenGL support isn't implemented yet.

	SDL_WM_GrabInput() is not implemented.
	Does anyone know how to do this?  SDL_WM_GrabInput() is designed
	to prevent the user from switching input and mouse focus away from
	the SDL application.

	Continuous relative mouse motion is not implemented.

	The AmigaOS port was done by Gabriele.Greco@galactica.it