Mason Wheeler to sdl I updated SDL, and suddenly my SDL frames stopped working. They'd "initialize" full of gibberish, and I couldn't render anything to them. After a bit of digging, I found a problem: the renderer initialization routine in my SDL frame code wasn't getting called anymore. procedure TSdlFrame.Paint; begin if SDL_SelectRenderer(FWindowID) = -1 then CreateRenderer; SDL_RenderPresent; end; function TSdlFrame.CreateRenderer: boolean; const pf: tagPIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR = (nSize: sizeof(pf); nVersion: 1; dwFlags: PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW or PFD_SUPPORT_OPENGL or PFD_DOUBLEBUFFER; iPixelType: PFD_TYPE_RGBA; cColorBits: 24; cAlphaBits: 8; iLayerType: PFD_MAIN_PLANE); RENDERERS: array[TRendererType] of AnsiString = ('software', 'gdi', 'opengl', 'd3d'); var pFormat: integer; begin if (SDL_SelectRenderer(FWindowID) = 0) then begin result := true; Exit; end; if FRendererType = rtOpenGL then begin pFormat := ChoosePixelFormat(canvas.Handle, @pf); if not SetPixelFormat(canvas.Handle, pFormat, @pf) then outputDebugString(PChar(SysErrorMessage(GetLastError))); if wglCreateContext(canvas.Handle) = 0 then outputDebugString(PChar(SysErrorMessage(GetLastError))); end; if (SDL_CreateRenderer(FWindowID, SDL_RendererIndex(RENDERERS[FRendererType]), [sdlrPresentFlip3, sdlrAccelerated]) = 0) then begin SDL_ShowWindow(FWindowID); assert(SDL_SetRenderDrawColor(0, 0, 0, 255) = 0); FFlags := SDL_GetWindowFlags(FWindowID); if assigned(FOnAvailable) then FOnAvailable(self); end else outputDebugString(pChar(format('SDL_CreateRenderer failed: %s', [sdl_GetError]))); result := SDL_SelectRenderer(FWindowID) = 0; end; This is a critical issue. The Paint method gets called when the control receives a WM_PAINT message from Windows. I can't create the renderer before then, or it will fail and cause trouble. And when I do create it, it needs to be created with certain parameters. So imagine my surprise when I started debugging into the DLL and found that SDL_SelectRenderer was trying to be "helpful" by creating the renderer for me if it didn't already exist! Now not only does my initialization code not get called, I end up with the wrong renderer and so things don't render as expected when I try to use the window.

/*
    SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
    Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Sam Lantinga

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

    Sam Lantinga
    slouken@libsdl.org
*/
#include "SDL_config.h"


#ifndef __SDL_SYS_YUV_H__
#define __SDL_SYS_YUV_H__

/* This is the BeOS implementation of YUV video overlays */

#include "SDL_video.h"
#include "SDL_lowvideo.h"

extern "C"
{

    struct private_yuvhwdata
    {
/*  FRAMEDATA* CurrentFrameData;
    FRAMEDATA* FrameData0;
    FRAMEDATA* FrameData1;
    PgScalerProps_t   props;
    PgScalerCaps_t    caps;
    PgVideoChannel_t* channel;
    PhArea_t CurrentViewPort;
    PhPoint_t CurrentWindowPos;
    long format;
    int scaler_on;
    int current;
    long YStride;
    long VStride;
    long UStride;
    int ischromakey;
    long chromakey;
    int forcedredraw;
    unsigned long State;
    long flags;
*/
        SDL_Surface *display;
        BView *bview;
        bool first_display;
        BBitmap *bbitmap;
        int locked;
    };

    extern BBitmap *BE_GetOverlayBitmap(BRect bounds, color_space cs);
    extern SDL_Overlay *BE_CreateYUVOverlay(_THIS, int width, int height,
                                            Uint32 format,
                                            SDL_Surface * display);
    extern int BE_LockYUVOverlay(_THIS, SDL_Overlay * overlay);
    extern void BE_UnlockYUVOverlay(_THIS, SDL_Overlay * overlay);
    extern int BE_DisplayYUVOverlay(_THIS, SDL_Overlay * overlay,
                                    SDL_Rect * src, SDL_Rect * dst);
    extern void BE_FreeYUVOverlay(_THIS, SDL_Overlay * overlay);

};

#endif /* __SDL_PH_YUV_H__ */
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