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To: sdl@libsdl.org From: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:19:53 +0100 Subject: [SDL] More mouse enhancements for Mac OS X The attached patch brings two more enhancements to mouse handling on Mac OS X (Quartz): 1. Currently, after launching an SDL application, SDL's notion of the mouse position is stuck in the top left corner (0,0) until the first time the mouse is moved. That's because the UpdateMouse() function isn't implemented in the Quartz driver. This patch adds it. 2. When grabbing input while the mouse cursor is hidden, the function CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition(0) is called, which prevents the system's notion of the mouse location from moving (and therefore leaving the SDL window) even when the mouse is moved. However, apparently the Wacom tablet driver (and maybe other special pointing device drivers) doesn't care about that setting and still allows the mouse location to go outside of the window. Interestingly, the system cursor, which is made visible by the existing code in SDL in that case, does not follow the mouse location, but appears in the middle of the SDL window. The mouse location being outside of the window however means that mouse button events go to background applications (or the dock or whatever is there), which is very confusing to the user who sees no cursor outside of the SDL window. I have not found any way of intercepting these events (and that's probably by design, as "normal" applications shouldn't prevent the user from bringing other applications' windows to the front by clicking on them). An idea would be placing a fully transparent, screen-filling window in front of everything, but I fear that this might affect rendering performance (by doing unnecessary compositing, using up memory, or whatever). The deluxe solution to the problem would be talking to the tablet driver using AppleEvents to tell it to constrain its mapped area to the window (see Wacom's "TabletEventDemo" sample app, http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/mac/downloads.html), but I think that the bloat that solution would add to SDL would outweigh its usefulness. What I did instead in my patch is reassociating mouse and cursor when the mouse leaves the window while an invisible grab is in effect, and restoring the grab when the window is entered. That way, the grab can still be effectively broken by a tablet, but at least it's obvious to the user that it is broken. That change is minimal - it doesn't affect operation with a mouse (or a trackpad), and the code that it adds is not executed on every PumpEvents() call, only when entering and leaving the window. Unless there are any concerns about the patch, please apply. Feel free to shorten the lengthy comment in SDL_QuartzEvents.m if you think it's too verbose. Thanks -Christian
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:31:00 +0000
parents 355632dca928
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>SDL_PixelFormat</H1
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NAME="AEN3178"
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><H2
>Name</H2
>SDL_PixelFormat&nbsp;--&nbsp;Stores surface format information</DIV
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NAME="AEN3181"
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>Structure Definition</H2
><PRE
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>typedef struct{
  SDL_Palette *palette;
  Uint8  BitsPerPixel;
  Uint8  BytesPerPixel;
  Uint32 Rmask, Gmask, Bmask, Amask;
  Uint8  Rshift, Gshift, Bshift, Ashift;
  Uint8  Rloss, Gloss, Bloss, Aloss;
  Uint32 colorkey;
  Uint8  alpha;
} SDL_PixelFormat;</PRE
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>Structure Data</H2
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>palette</I
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>Pointer to the <A
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>palette</A
>, or <TT
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> if the <TT
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>BitsPerPixel</I
></TT
>&#62;8</TD
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>BitsPerPixel</I
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>The number of bits used to represent each pixel in a surface. Usually 8, 16, 24 or 32.</TD
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>BytesPerPixel</I
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>The number of bytes used to represent each pixel in a surface. Usually one to four.</TD
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>[RGBA]mask</I
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>Binary mask used to retrieve individual color values</TD
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>[RGBA]loss</I
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>Precision loss of each color component (2<SUP
>[RGBA]loss</SUP
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>[RGBA]shift</I
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>Binary left shift of each color component in the pixel value</TD
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>colorkey</I
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>Pixel value of transparent pixels</TD
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>alpha</I
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>Overall surface alpha value</TD
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>Description</H2
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>A <SPAN
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>SDL_PixelFormat</SPAN
> describes the format of the pixel data stored at the <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>pixels</I
></TT
> field of a <A
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>SDL_Surface</SPAN
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>. Every surface stores a <SPAN
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>SDL_PixelFormat</SPAN
> in the <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>format</I
></TT
> field.</P
><P
>If you wish to do pixel level modifications on a surface, then understanding how SDL stores its color information is essential.</P
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>8-bit pixel formats are the easiest to understand. Since its an 8-bit format, we have 8 <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>BitsPerPixel</I
></TT
> and 1 <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>BytesPerPixel</I
></TT
>. Since <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>BytesPerPixel</I
></TT
> is 1, all pixels are represented by a Uint8 which contains an index into <TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>palette</I
></TT
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>colors</I
></TT
>. So, to determine the color of a pixel in a 8-bit surface: we read the color index from <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>surface</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>pixels</I
></TT
> and we use that index to read the <A
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>SDL_Color</SPAN
></A
> structure from <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>surface</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
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><I
>format</I
></TT
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>palette</I
></TT
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>colors</I
></TT
>. Like so:
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>SDL_Surface *surface;
SDL_PixelFormat *fmt;
SDL_Color *color;
Uint8 index;

.
.

/* Create surface */
.
.
fmt=surface-&#62;format;

/* Check the bitdepth of the surface */
if(fmt-&#62;BitsPerPixel!=8){
  fprintf(stderr, "Not an 8-bit surface.\n");
  return(-1);
}

/* Lock the surface */
SDL_LockSurface(surface);

/* Get the topleft pixel */
index=*(Uint8 *)surface-&#62;pixels;
color=fmt-&#62;palette-&#62;colors[index];

/* Unlock the surface */
SDL_UnlockSurface(surface);
printf("Pixel Color-&#62; Red: %d, Green: %d, Blue: %d. Index: %d\n",
          color-&#62;r, color-&#62;g, color-&#62;b, index);
.
.</PRE
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>Pixel formats above 8-bit are an entirely different experience. They are
considered to be "TrueColor" formats and the color information is stored in the
pixels themselves, not in a palette. The mask, shift and loss fields tell us
how the color information is encoded. The mask fields allow us to isolate each
color component, the shift fields tell us the number of bits to the right of
each component in the pixel value and the loss fields tell us the number of
bits lost from each component when packing 8-bit color component in a pixel.
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>/* Extracting color components from a 32-bit color value */
SDL_PixelFormat *fmt;
SDL_Surface *surface;
Uint32 temp, pixel;
Uint8 red, green, blue, alpha;
.
.
.
fmt=surface-&#62;format;
SDL_LockSurface(surface);
pixel=*((Uint32*)surface-&#62;pixels);
SDL_UnlockSurface(surface);

/* Get Red component */
temp=pixel&#38;fmt-&#62;Rmask; /* Isolate red component */
temp=temp&#62;&#62;fmt-&#62;Rshift;/* Shift it down to 8-bit */
temp=temp&#60;&#60;fmt-&#62;Rloss; /* Expand to a full 8-bit number */
red=(Uint8)temp;

/* Get Green component */
temp=pixel&#38;fmt-&#62;Gmask; /* Isolate green component */
temp=temp&#62;&#62;fmt-&#62;Gshift;/* Shift it down to 8-bit */
temp=temp&#60;&#60;fmt-&#62;Gloss; /* Expand to a full 8-bit number */
green=(Uint8)temp;

/* Get Blue component */
temp=pixel&#38;fmt-&#62;Bmask; /* Isolate blue component */
temp=temp&#62;&#62;fmt-&#62;Bshift;/* Shift it down to 8-bit */
temp=temp&#60;&#60;fmt-&#62;Bloss; /* Expand to a full 8-bit number */
blue=(Uint8)temp;

/* Get Alpha component */
temp=pixel&#38;fmt-&#62;Amask; /* Isolate alpha component */
temp=temp&#62;&#62;fmt-&#62;Ashift;/* Shift it down to 8-bit */
temp=temp&#60;&#60;fmt-&#62;Aloss; /* Expand to a full 8-bit number */
alpha=(Uint8)temp;

printf("Pixel Color -&#62; R: %d,  G: %d,  B: %d,  A: %d\n", red, green, blue, alpha);
.
.
.</PRE
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