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Fixed bug #113: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:39:22 +1000 From: "Eric Mangold" Subject: [SDL] Window manager does not show SDL window titles Hello, I have an issue with SDL-using applications and the sawfish window manager. The problem is that SDL windows do not show the window caption. My gnome panel *does* show the window name, but the actual sawfish window frame shows no caption at all. All other non-SDL applications that I use work fine. I tried a couple other window managers, and they *were* able to show the SDL window captions correctly. Though there many be other WMs that can't. I believe the problem is that SDL is using the UTF8_STRING type for the window's WM_NAME and WM_ICON properties. In fact, WM_NAME and WM_ICON are supposed to set to a TEXT type, usually STRING (ISO 8859-1). The property names _NET_WM_NAME and _NET_WM_ICON_NAME should be used to store the UTF8_STRING versions of the window title and icon name. You can see the properties I refer to with a command like this: xprop|grep -e "WM.*NAME" Please note the freedesktop.org standard: http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id2506954 This page talks a little bit about the history of these properties. Just search down the page for "WM_NAME". http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Please let me know if I can be of any assistance in resolving this issue. Thanks, Eric Mangold
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:31:36 +0000
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>Chapter 2. Graphics and Video</H1
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>Introduction to SDL Video</A
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>Introduction to SDL Video</H1
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>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
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>Initializing the Video Display</H2
><P
>This is what almost all SDL programs have to do in one way or
another.</P
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>Example 2-1. Initializing the Video Display</B
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>    SDL_Surface *screen;

    /* Initialize the SDL library */
    if( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) &#60; 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
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>Initializing the Best Video Mode</H2
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>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
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>Example 2-2. Initializing the Best Video Mode</B
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>    /* 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-&#62;format-&#62;BitsPerPixel);</PRE
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>Loading and Displaying a BMP File</H2
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>The following function loads and displays a BMP file given as
argument, once SDL is initialised and a video mode has been set.</P
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>Example 2-3. Loading and Displaying a BMP File</B
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>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-&#62;format-&#62;palette &#38;&#38; screen-&#62;format-&#62;palette) {
    SDL_SetColors(screen, image-&#62;format-&#62;palette-&#62;colors, 0,
                  image-&#62;format-&#62;palette-&#62;ncolors);
    }

    /* Blit onto the screen surface */
    if(SDL_BlitSurface(image, NULL, screen, NULL) &#60; 0)
        fprintf(stderr, "BlitSurface error: %s\n", SDL_GetError());

    SDL_UpdateRect(screen, 0, 0, image-&#62;w, image-&#62;h);

    /* Free the allocated BMP surface */
    SDL_FreeSurface(image);
}</PRE
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>Drawing Directly to the Display</H2
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>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
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>To convert between pixel values and their red, green, blue
components, use SDL_GetRGB() and SDL_MapRGB().</P
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>Example 2-4. getpixel()</B
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>/*
 * 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-&#62;format-&#62;BytesPerPixel;
    /* Here p is the address to the pixel we want to retrieve */
    Uint8 *p = (Uint8 *)surface-&#62;pixels + y * surface-&#62;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] &#60;&#60; 16 | p[1] &#60;&#60; 8 | p[2];
        else
            return p[0] | p[1] &#60;&#60; 8 | p[2] &#60;&#60; 16;

    case 4:
        return *(Uint32 *)p;

    default:
        return 0;       /* shouldn't happen, but avoids warnings */
    }
}</PRE
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>/*
 * 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-&#62;format-&#62;BytesPerPixel;
    /* Here p is the address to the pixel we want to set */
    Uint8 *p = (Uint8 *)surface-&#62;pixels + y * surface-&#62;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 &#62;&#62; 16) &#38; 0xff;
            p[1] = (pixel &#62;&#62; 8) &#38; 0xff;
            p[2] = pixel &#38; 0xff;
        } else {
            p[0] = pixel &#38; 0xff;
            p[1] = (pixel &#62;&#62; 8) &#38; 0xff;
            p[2] = (pixel &#62;&#62; 16) &#38; 0xff;
        }
        break;

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        *(Uint32 *)p = pixel;
        break;
    }
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>&#13;    /* 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-&#62;format, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00);

    x = screen-&#62;w / 2;
    y = screen-&#62;h / 2;

    /* Lock the screen for direct access to the pixels */
    if ( SDL_MUSTLOCK(screen) ) {
        if ( SDL_LockSurface(screen) &#60; 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);

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