Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:55:30 +0100 From: Max Horn Subject: SDL: video/quartz cleanup while doing some experimental changes in the quartz code, I was annoyed by having to recompile that one big .o file over and over again. So I decided to finally realize one TODO: properly splitting the code over multiple files :-). With two exceptions, I didn't make code changes, only rearranged files and added new headers. Since there are several new files, making a patch didn't work out so well, so I decided to just send you all the new & modified files. The one source change I made is related to showing/hiding the mouse. I renamed cursor_visible to cursor_should_be_visible and cursor_hidden to cursor_visible; I think that makes reading the code easier. Then I added two new functions: QZ_ShowMouse and QZ_HideMouse. They help manage cursor_visible (the former 'cursor_hidden'). Finally I replaced the Carbon ShowCursor/HiderCuror calls by [NSCursor hide] and [NSCursor unhide]. The API docs are not conclusive, but it might be that with those the "cursor_visible" (former 'cursor_hidden') hack may not be necessary anymore; however so far I didn't test this hypothesis, so I left that in. The other change was to remove in_foreground and use [NSApp isActive] instead: Manually keeping track of whether we are in the foreground is error prone. This should work better in some corner cases.

Wish list for the 1.3 development branch:

 * Use /etc/fb.modes, if available, like GGI does
 * Add mousewheel events (new unified event architecture?)
 * DirectInput joystick support needs to be implemented
 * Be able to enumerate and select available audio and video drivers
 * Fullscreen video mode support for MacOS X
 * Explicit vertical retrace wait (maybe separate from SDL_Flip?)
 * Shaped windows, windows without borders
 * Multiple windows, multiple display support
 * SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD on Windows and MacOS?
 * Add a timestamp to events
 * Use RDTSC for timer resolution on x86 hardware
 * Add audio input API
 * Add hardware accelerated scaled blit
 * Add hardware accelerated alpha blits
 * Redesign blitting architecture to allow blit plugins

In the jump from 1.2 to 1.3, we should change the SDL_Rect members to
int and evaluate all the rest of the datatypes.  This is the only place
we should do it though, since the 1.2 series should not break binary
compatibility in this way.

Requests:
 * PCM and CDROM volume control (deprecated, but possible)