view README.PicoGUI @ 4138:b1fd24d62e55 SDL-1.2

Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:41:08 -0500 From: Mike Miscevic Subject: SDL and capslock/numlock Find attached a patch against SDL-1.2.13 for check of SDL_NO_LOCK_KEYS environment variable. This differs slightly from other patches I've seen in that it has 3 modes: Disable CAPS-LOCK and NUM-LOCK supression of down+up key events, suitable for games where the player needs these keys to do more than just toggle. A value of 1 will effect both CAPS-LOCK and NUM-LOCK. A value of 2 will effect only CAPS-LOCK. A value of 3 will effect only NUM-LOCK. All other values have no effect. This works for me and has been tested on: - Fedora 8 64-bit - SRCRPM SDL-1.2.13-1.fc8.src.rpm - Emeny Territory Quake Wars (ETQW), native 32-bit commercial game --Mike Miscevic
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:50:28 +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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