view include/SDL_mutex.h @ 4167:a6f635e5eaa6 SDL-1.2

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>
date Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:43:36 +0000
parents a1b03ba2fcd0
children 4c4113c2162c
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/*
    SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Sam Lantinga

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

    Sam Lantinga
    slouken@libsdl.org
*/

#ifndef _SDL_mutex_h
#define _SDL_mutex_h

/* Functions to provide thread synchronization primitives

	These are independent of the other SDL routines.
*/

#include "SDL_stdinc.h"
#include "SDL_error.h"

#include "begin_code.h"
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/* Synchronization functions which can time out return this value
   if they time out.
*/
#define SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT	1

/* This is the timeout value which corresponds to never time out */
#define SDL_MUTEX_MAXWAIT	(~(Uint32)0)


/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* Mutex functions                                               */
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */

/* The SDL mutex structure, defined in SDL_mutex.c */
struct SDL_mutex;
typedef struct SDL_mutex SDL_mutex;

/* Create a mutex, initialized unlocked */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_mutex * SDLCALL SDL_CreateMutex(void);

/* Lock the mutex  (Returns 0, or -1 on error) */
#define SDL_LockMutex(m)	SDL_mutexP(m)
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_mutexP(SDL_mutex *mutex);

/* Unlock the mutex  (Returns 0, or -1 on error)
   It is an error to unlock a mutex that has not been locked by
   the current thread, and doing so results in undefined behavior.
 */
#define SDL_UnlockMutex(m)	SDL_mutexV(m)
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_mutexV(SDL_mutex *mutex);

/* Destroy a mutex */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DestroyMutex(SDL_mutex *mutex);


/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* Semaphore functions                                           */
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */

/* The SDL semaphore structure, defined in SDL_sem.c */
struct SDL_semaphore;
typedef struct SDL_semaphore SDL_sem;

/* Create a semaphore, initialized with value, returns NULL on failure. */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_sem * SDLCALL SDL_CreateSemaphore(Uint32 initial_value);

/* Destroy a semaphore */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DestroySemaphore(SDL_sem *sem);

/* This function suspends the calling thread until the semaphore pointed 
 * to by sem has a positive count. It then atomically decreases the semaphore
 * count.
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemWait(SDL_sem *sem);

/* Non-blocking variant of SDL_SemWait(), returns 0 if the wait succeeds,
   SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT if the wait would block, and -1 on error.
*/
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemTryWait(SDL_sem *sem);

/* Variant of SDL_SemWait() with a timeout in milliseconds, returns 0 if
   the wait succeeds, SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT if the wait does not succeed in
   the allotted time, and -1 on error.
   On some platforms this function is implemented by looping with a delay
   of 1 ms, and so should be avoided if possible.
*/
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemWaitTimeout(SDL_sem *sem, Uint32 ms);

/* Atomically increases the semaphore's count (not blocking), returns 0,
   or -1 on error.
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_SemPost(SDL_sem *sem);

/* Returns the current count of the semaphore */
extern DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_SemValue(SDL_sem *sem);


/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* Condition variable functions                                  */
/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */

/* The SDL condition variable structure, defined in SDL_cond.c */
struct SDL_cond;
typedef struct SDL_cond SDL_cond;

/* Create a condition variable */
extern DECLSPEC SDL_cond * SDLCALL SDL_CreateCond(void);

/* Destroy a condition variable */
extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_DestroyCond(SDL_cond *cond);

/* Restart one of the threads that are waiting on the condition variable,
   returns 0 or -1 on error.
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondSignal(SDL_cond *cond);

/* Restart all threads that are waiting on the condition variable,
   returns 0 or -1 on error.
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondBroadcast(SDL_cond *cond);

/* Wait on the condition variable, unlocking the provided mutex.
   The mutex must be locked before entering this function!
   The mutex is re-locked once the condition variable is signaled.
   Returns 0 when it is signaled, or -1 on error.
 */
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondWait(SDL_cond *cond, SDL_mutex *mut);

/* Waits for at most 'ms' milliseconds, and returns 0 if the condition
   variable is signaled, SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT if the condition is not
   signaled in the allotted time, and -1 on error.
   On some platforms this function is implemented by looping with a delay
   of 1 ms, and so should be avoided if possible.
*/
extern DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_CondWaitTimeout(SDL_cond *cond, SDL_mutex *mutex, Uint32 ms);

/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#include "close_code.h"

#endif /* _SDL_mutex_h */