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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 9. Joystick</H1
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>SDL_NumJoysticks</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Count available joysticks.</DT
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>SDL_JoystickName</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get joystick name.</DT
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>SDL_JoystickOpen</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Opens a joystick for use.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Determine if a joystick has been opened</DT
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>SDL_JoystickIndex</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the index of an SDL_Joystick.</DT
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>SDL_JoystickNumAxes</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the number of joystick axes</DT
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>SDL_JoystickNumBalls</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the number of joystick trackballs</DT
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>SDL_JoystickNumHats</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the number of joystick hats</DT
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>SDL_JoystickNumButtons</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the number of joysitck buttons</DT
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>SDL_JoystickUpdate</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Updates the state of all joysticks</DT
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>SDL_JoystickGetAxis</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the current state of an axis</DT
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>SDL_JoystickGetHat</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the current state of a joystick hat</DT
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>SDL_JoystickGetButton</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the current state of a given button on a given joystick</DT
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>SDL_JoystickGetBall</A
>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get relative trackball motion</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Closes a previously opened joystick</DT
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>Joysticks, and other similar input devices, have a very strong role in game playing and SDL provides comprehensive support for them. Axes, Buttons, POV Hats and trackballs are all supported.</P
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>Joystick support is initialized by passed the <TT
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> flag to <A
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>SDL_Init</TT
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>. Once initilized joysticks must be opened using <A
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><TT
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>SDL_JoystickOpen</TT
></A
>.</P
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>While using the functions describe in this secton may seem like the best way to access and read from joysticks, in most cases they aren't. Ideally joysticks should be read using the <A
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>event</A
> system. To enable this, you must set the joystick event processing state with <A
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><TT
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>SDL_JoystickEventState</TT
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>. Joysticks must be <A
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> before they can be used of course.</P
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> handling the joystick via the event queue then you must explicitly request a joystick update by calling <A
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>.</P
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>Force Feedback is not yet support. Sam (slouken@libsdl.org) is soliciting suggestions from people with force-feedback experience on the best wat to desgin the API.</P
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