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Fixed bug #611
From Tim Angus 2008-08-12 11:18:06
I'm one of the maintainers of ioquake3.org, an updated version of the
Quake 3 engine. Relatively recently, we moved ioq3 to use SDL as a
replacement for 95% of the platform specific code that was there. On the
whole it's doing a great job but unfortunately since the move we've been
getting complaints about the quality of the mouse input on the Windows
platform to the point where for many the game is unplayable. Put in
other terms, the current stable SDL 1.2 is basically not fit for purpose
if you need high quality mouse input as you do in a first person shooter.
Over the weekend I decided to pull my finger out and actually figure out
what's going on. There are basically two major problems. Firstly, when
using the "windib" driver, mouse input is gathered via the WM_MOUSEMOVE
message. Googling for this indicates that often this is known to result
in "spurious" and/or "missing" mouse movement events; this is the
primary cause of the poor mouse input. The second problem is that the
"directx" driver does not work at all in combination with OpenGL meaning
that you can't use DirectInput if your application also uses OpenGL. In
other words you're locked into using the "windib" driver and its poor
mouse input.
In order to address these problems I've done the following:
* Remove WM_MOUSEMOVE based motion event generation and replace with
calls to GetCursorPos which seems much more reliable. In order to
achieve this I've moved mouse motion out into a separate function that
is called once per DIB_PumpEvents.
* Remove the restriction on the "directx" driver being inoperable in
combination with OpenGL. There is a bug for this issues that I've
hijacked to a certain extent
(http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265). I'm the first to admit
I don't really understand why this restriction is there in the first
place. The commit message for the bug fix that introduced this
restriction (r581) isn't very elaborate and I couldn't see any other bug
tracking the issue. If anyone has more information on the bug that was
avoided by r581 it would be helpful as I/someone could then look into
addressing the problem without disabling the "directx" driver.
* I've also removed the restriction on not being allowed to use
DirectInput in windowed mode. I couldn't see any reason for this, at
least not from our perspective. I have my suspicions that it'll be
something like matching up the cursor with the mouse coordinates...
* I bumped up the DirectInput API used to version 7 in order to get
access to mouse buttons 4-7. I've had to inject a little bit of the DX7
headers into SDL there as the MinGW ones aren't up to date in this respect.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:43:36 +0000 |
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Graphics and Video</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="guidevideo.html#GUIDEVIDEOINTRO" >Introduction to SDL Video</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="guidevideoopengl.html" >Using OpenGL With SDL</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="GUIDEVIDEOINTRO" ></A >Introduction to SDL Video</H1 ><P >Video is probably the most common thing that SDL is used for, and so it has the most complete subsystem. Here are a few examples to demonstrate the basics.</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN68" ></A >Initializing the Video Display</H2 ><P >This is what almost all SDL programs have to do in one way or another.</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN71" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2-1. Initializing the Video Display</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > SDL_Surface *screen; /* Initialize the SDL library */ if( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0 ) { fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't initialize SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); exit(1); } /* Clean up on exit */ atexit(SDL_Quit); /* * Initialize the display in a 640x480 8-bit palettized mode, * requesting a software surface */ screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 8, SDL_SWSURFACE); if ( screen == NULL ) { fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't set 640x480x8 video mode: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); exit(1); }</PRE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN74" ></A >Initializing the Best Video Mode</H2 ><P >If you have a preference for a certain pixel depth but will accept any other, use SDL_SetVideoMode with SDL_ANYFORMAT as below. You can also use SDL_VideoModeOK() to find the native video mode that is closest to the mode you request.</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN77" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2-2. Initializing the Best Video Mode</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > /* Have a preference for 8-bit, but accept any depth */ screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 8, SDL_SWSURFACE|SDL_ANYFORMAT); if ( screen == NULL ) { fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't set 640x480x8 video mode: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); exit(1); } printf("Set 640x480 at %d bits-per-pixel mode\n", screen->format->BitsPerPixel);</PRE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN80" ></A >Loading and Displaying a BMP File</H2 ><P >The following function loads and displays a BMP file given as argument, once SDL is initialised and a video mode has been set.</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN83" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2-3. Loading and Displaying a BMP File</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >void display_bmp(char *file_name) { SDL_Surface *image; /* Load the BMP file into a surface */ image = SDL_LoadBMP(file_name); if (image == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't load %s: %s\n", file_name, SDL_GetError()); return; } /* * Palettized screen modes will have a default palette (a standard * 8*8*4 colour cube), but if the image is palettized as well we can * use that palette for a nicer colour matching */ if (image->format->palette && screen->format->palette) { SDL_SetColors(screen, image->format->palette->colors, 0, image->format->palette->ncolors); } /* Blit onto the screen surface */ if(SDL_BlitSurface(image, NULL, screen, NULL) < 0) fprintf(stderr, "BlitSurface error: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); SDL_UpdateRect(screen, 0, 0, image->w, image->h); /* Free the allocated BMP surface */ SDL_FreeSurface(image); }</PRE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN86" ></A >Drawing Directly to the Display</H2 ><P >The following two functions can be used to get and set single pixels of a surface. They are carefully written to work with any depth currently supported by SDL. Remember to lock the surface before calling them, and to unlock it before calling any other SDL functions.</P ><P >To convert between pixel values and their red, green, blue components, use SDL_GetRGB() and SDL_MapRGB().</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN90" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2-4. getpixel()</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >/* * Return the pixel value at (x, y) * NOTE: The surface must be locked before calling this! */ Uint32 getpixel(SDL_Surface *surface, int x, int y) { int bpp = surface->format->BytesPerPixel; /* Here p is the address to the pixel we want to retrieve */ Uint8 *p = (Uint8 *)surface->pixels + y * surface->pitch + x * bpp; switch(bpp) { case 1: return *p; case 2: return *(Uint16 *)p; case 3: if(SDL_BYTEORDER == SDL_BIG_ENDIAN) return p[0] << 16 | p[1] << 8 | p[2]; else return p[0] | p[1] << 8 | p[2] << 16; case 4: return *(Uint32 *)p; default: return 0; /* shouldn't happen, but avoids warnings */ } }</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN93" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2-5. putpixel()</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >/* * Set the pixel at (x, y) to the given value * NOTE: The surface must be locked before calling this! */ void putpixel(SDL_Surface *surface, int x, int y, Uint32 pixel) { int bpp = surface->format->BytesPerPixel; /* Here p is the address to the pixel we want to set */ Uint8 *p = (Uint8 *)surface->pixels + y * surface->pitch + x * bpp; switch(bpp) { case 1: *p = pixel; break; case 2: *(Uint16 *)p = pixel; break; case 3: if(SDL_BYTEORDER == SDL_BIG_ENDIAN) { p[0] = (pixel >> 16) & 0xff; p[1] = (pixel >> 8) & 0xff; p[2] = pixel & 0xff; } else { p[0] = pixel & 0xff; p[1] = (pixel >> 8) & 0xff; p[2] = (pixel >> 16) & 0xff; } break; case 4: *(Uint32 *)p = pixel; break; } }</PRE ></DIV ><P >The following code uses the putpixel() function above to set a yellow pixel in the middle of the screen.</P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="AEN97" ></A ><P ><B >Example 2-6. Using putpixel()</B ></P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > /* Code to set a yellow pixel at the center of the screen */ int x, y; Uint32 yellow; /* Map the color yellow to this display (R=0xff, G=0xFF, B=0x00) Note: If the display is palettized, you must set the palette first. */ yellow = SDL_MapRGB(screen->format, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00); x = screen->w / 2; y = screen->h / 2; /* Lock the screen for direct access to the pixels */ if ( SDL_MUSTLOCK(screen) ) { if ( SDL_LockSurface(screen) < 0 ) { fprintf(stderr, "Can't lock screen: %s\n", SDL_GetError()); return; } } putpixel(screen, x, y, yellow); if ( SDL_MUSTLOCK(screen) ) { SDL_UnlockSurface(screen); } /* Update just the part of the display that we've changed */ SDL_UpdateRect(screen, x, y, 1, 1); return; </PRE ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ></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="guidebasicsinit.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="guidevideoopengl.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Initializing SDL</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="guide.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Using OpenGL With SDL</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >