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First shot at new audio data types (int32 and float32). Notable changes: - Converters between types are autogenerated. Instead of making multiple passes over the data with seperate filters for endianess, size, signedness, etc, converting between data types is always one specialized filter. This simplifies SDL_BuildAudioCVT(), which otherwise had a million edge cases with the new types, and makes the actually conversions more CPU cache friendly. Left a stub for adding specific optimized versions of these routines (SSE/MMX/Altivec, assembler, etc) - Autogenerated converters are built by SDL/src/audio/sdlgenaudiocvt.pl. This does not need to be run unless tweaking the code, and thus doesn't need integration into the build system. - Went through all the drivers and tried to weed out all the "Uint16" references that are better specified with the new SDL_AudioFormat typedef. - Cleaned out a bunch of hardcoded bitwise magic numbers and replaced them with new SDL_AUDIO_* macros. - Added initial float32 and int32 support code. Theoretically, existing drivers will push these through converters to get the data they want to feed to the hardware. Still TODO: - Optimize and debug new converters. - Update the CoreAudio backend to accept float32 data directly. - Other backends, too? - SDL_LoadWAV() needs to be updated to support int32 and float32 .wav files (both of which exist and can be generated by 'sox' for testing purposes). - Update the mixer to handle new datatypes. - Optionally update SDL_sound and SDL_mixer, etc.
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:10:46 +0000
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>SDL_AddTimer</H1
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>SDL_AddTimer&nbsp;--&nbsp;Add a timer which will call a callback after the specified number of milliseconds has
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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><CODE
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>SDL_TimerID <B
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>SDL_AddTimer</B
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>(Uint32 interval, SDL_NewTimerCallback callback, void *param);</CODE
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>/* type definition for the "new" timer callback function */
typedef Uint32 (*SDL_NewTimerCallback)(Uint32 interval, void *param);</PRE
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>Adds a callback function to be run after the specified number of
milliseconds has elapsed. The callback function is passed the current
timer interval and the user supplied parameter from the
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_AddTimer</TT
> call and returns the next timer
interval. If the returned value from the callback is the same as the one
passed in, the periodic alarm continues, otherwise a new alarm is
scheduled.</P
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>To cancel a currently running timer call
<A
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timer ID returned from
<TT
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>The timer callback function may run in a different thread than your
main program, and so shouldn't call any functions from within itself.
You may always call <A
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>SDL_PushEvent</A
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>The granularity of the timer is platform-dependent, but you should count
on it being at least 10 ms as this is the most common number.
This 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).

If you use this function, you need to pass <TT
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>Returns an ID value for the added timer or
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>my_timer_id = SDL_AddTimer((33/10)*10, my_callbackfunc, my_callback_param);</PRE
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