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Added support for OpenGL ES and UIKit Video Driver: - included SDL_renderer_gles.h - added UIKit Video driver bootstrap declaration - added property "retained_backing" to gl_config structure. Having retained backing means your video buffers can't be overwritten by other applications between drawing frames. By default, this is enabled. I wanted to give the option to disable this on iPhone because it increases performance greatly. - modified SDL_GetAttribute and SDL_SetAttribute function for OpenGL ES support. OpenGL ES does not have support for accumulation buffers, and is always double buffered, among other things.
author Holmes Futrell <hfutrell@umail.ucsb.edu>
date Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:07:58 +0000
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>SDL_SetTimer</H1
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>SDL_SetTimer&nbsp;--&nbsp;Set a callback to run after the specified number of milliseconds has
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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>int <B
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>SDL_SetTimer</B
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>(Uint32 interval, SDL_TimerCallback callback);</CODE
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>/* Function prototype for the timer callback function */
typedef Uint32 (*SDL_TimerCallback)(Uint32 interval);</P
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>Set a callback to run after the specified number of milliseconds has
elapsed. The callback function is passed the current timer interval
and returns the next timer interval.  If the returned value is the
same as the one passed in, the periodic alarm continues, otherwise a
new alarm is scheduled.</P
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>To cancel a currently running timer, call
<TT
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>The timer callback function may run in a different thread than your
main constant, and so shouldn't call any functions from within itself.</P
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>The maximum resolution of this timer is 10 ms, which means that if
you request a 16 ms timer, your callback will run approximately 20 ms
later on an unloaded system.  If you wanted to set a flag signaling
a frame update at 30 frames per second (every 33 ms), you might set a
timer for 30 ms (see example below).</P
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>If you use this function, you need to pass <TT
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>SDL_INIT_TIMER</TT
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to <TT
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>This function is kept for compatibility but has been superseded
by the new timer functions
<A
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>SDL_SetTimer((33/10)*10, my_callback);</PRE
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