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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:25:33 -0400
From: Glenn Maynard
To: sdl@libsdl.org
Subject: [SDL] SDL_SetVideoMode() failing and not setting an error (patch)
Running an OpenGL SDL application off 1.2.7, at SDL_InitSubSystem(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) time:
Warning: Unable to initialize AAlib mouseUsing AAlib driver: Slang driver 1.0 (slang)
SDL_SetVideoMode then fails; SDL_GetError() returns "".
The installation problem is straightforward: X (the higher priority
driver) isn't running, so SDL is falling back on aalib. However,
no error is being set when aalib fails to initialize. This also
happens with the svgalib driver.
SDL_video.c line ~653 sets mode to NULL, since aalib didn't return an
OpenGL surface. Line ~711 ("failed setting a video mode") returns NULL.
The attached patch sets an error. It's a horrible, useless error
message--it should really say eg. "aalib does not support OpenGL"; this
should probably be done earlier in the individual drivers, too.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:54:40 +0000 |
parents | 355632dca928 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_JoystickOpen</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="Joystick" HREF="joystick.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_JoystickName" HREF="sdljoystickname.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_JoystickOpened" HREF="sdljoystickopened.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="sdljoystickname.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdljoystickopened.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLJOYSTICKOPEN" ></A >SDL_JoystickOpen</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN6096" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_JoystickOpen -- Opens a joystick for use.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN6099" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN6100" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >SDL_Joystick *<B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_JoystickOpen</B ></CODE >(int index);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6106" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Opens a joystick for use within SDL. The <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >index</I ></TT > refers to the N'th joystick in the system. A joystick must be opened before it game be used.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6110" ></A ><H2 >Return Value</H2 ><P >Returns a <SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >SDL_Joystick</SPAN > structure on success. <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >NULL</SPAN > on failure.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6115" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >SDL_Joystick *joy; // Check for joystick if(SDL_NumJoysticks()>0){ // Open joystick joy=SDL_JoystickOpen(0); if(joy) { printf("Opened Joystick 0\n"); printf("Name: %s\n", SDL_JoystickName(0)); printf("Number of Axes: %d\n", SDL_JoystickNumAxes(joy)); printf("Number of Buttons: %d\n", SDL_JoystickNumButtons(joy)); printf("Number of Balls: %d\n", SDL_JoystickNumBalls(joy)); } else printf("Couldn't open Joystick 0\n"); // Close if opened if(SDL_JoystickOpened(0)) SDL_JoystickClose(joy); }</PRE ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN6119" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdljoystickclose.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_JoystickClose</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="sdljoystickname.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" ><A HREF="sdljoystickopened.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_JoystickName</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="joystick.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_JoystickOpened</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >