view README.PicoGUI @ 4099:822f9624f984 SDL-1.2

Brian Fisher fixed bug #513 If an app requests a 24-bit opengl mode on a machine with a 32-bit desktop with the windib video backend, then when exiting fullscreen the desktop resolution is not restored The reason this is, is because the windib backend restores the desktop resolution when exiting fullscreen in DIB_SetVideoMode when it finds that the last request was for fullscreen by checking the original flags on the video surface. However, if the bits per pixel requested is different than current surface, the video surface is recreated and the original video flags are lost. So the check to see if we were exiting fullscreen fails. below is a patch to SDL_dibvideo.c that solves the problem by using the original flags in all cases. thanks!
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:00:30 +0000
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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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