view README.PicoGUI @ 4215:d83830711a5b SDL-1.2

Fixed bug #615 Scott McCreary 2008-08-21 10:48:14 PDT This patch adds support for Haiku. http://ports.haiku-files.org/browser/haikuports/trunk/media-libs/libsdl/SDL-1.2.13-haiku.diff Haiku is an open-source recreation of BeOS. It has better POSIX compliance than beOS did, and other improved features, which in some cases causes us to have to "undo" previous BeOS workarounds. Here's our port log entry for it, showing the steps to force the changes into configure and Makefile: http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki/media-libs/libsdl/1.2.13/1 Note that this was only tried on 1.2.13 stable so far. Haiku is using a newer config.guess / config.sub that doesn't yet seem to be in the released libtool, so we are having to copy it in for now. http://haiku-files.org/files/optional-packages/
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:18:42 +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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