The MacOSX Carbon/Cocoa/X11 all in one library patch. Relevant emails: To: SDL Developers <sdl@libsdl.org> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb@algonet.se> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:29:04 +0200 Subject: [SDL] Mac OS X Video Drivers [patch] I've updated/added the Carbon and X11 video drivers to the Mac OS X port of SDL 1.2 (the CVS version), and made the Cocoa driver and runtime *optional*. The default is still Cocoa, and the "Quartz" driver. But you can now also use "toolbox" for Carbon, and "x11" for running with Apple's (or other) X11 server: export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 export SDL_VIDEO_GL_DRIVER=/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib It also checks if the frameworks are available, by a: #include <Carbon/Carbon.h> or #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> (this should make it configure on plain Darwin as well?) Here are the new configure targets: --enable-video-cocoa use Cocoa/Quartz video driver default=yes --enable-video-carbon use Carbon/QuickDraw video driver default=yes --enable-video-x11 use X11 video driver default=no ./configure --enable-video-cocoa --enable-video-carbon --enable-video-x11 \ --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib The Carbon version is just an updated version of the old SDL driver for Mac OS 9, and could probably be improved... (but it does work, including the Carbon version of SDLmain) If you disable cocoa, you can run with -framework Carbon only, and the C version of SDL_main.c. And if you disable carbon too, you can still use the X11 version which doesn't require SDLmain. I updated the DrawSprocket version, but did not include it. (no blitters or VRAM GWorlds etc. available on OS X anyway) Besides for Mac OS 9, I don't think there's any use for it ? And note that any performance on Mac OS X equals OpenGL anyway... You can get "fair" software SDL results on captured CG displays, but for decent frame rates you need to be using GL for rendering. Finally, here is the patch itself: http://www.algonet.se/~afb/SDL-12CVS-macvideo.patch --anders PS. It says "video", but as usual it applies to mouse/keyboard too. ------ To: A list for developers using the SDL library <sdl@libsdl.org> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb@algonet.se> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:02:15 +0200 Subject: [SDL] Updated Mac patch Updated the previous Mac patch to disable Carbon by default. Also "fixed" the SDL.spec again, so that it builds on Darwin. http://www.algonet.se/~afb/SDL-1.2.9-mac.patch Also applied fine to SDL12 CVS, when I tried it.

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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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