From: Couriersud
Subject: Fusionsound audio driver
attached is a diff containing a audio driver for the FusionSound
library. This sound library is closely related to DirectFB and uses the
same transport (fusion) as DirectFB when running applications "remote",
i.e. over the network. As such, it natively redirects sound where
DirectFB redirects video. This may be handy for everyone using SDL over
DirectFB.
From: Couriersud
Subject: Re: Aw: Experience using SDL1.3 in sdlmame/Proposal for api additions
> For consistency you'd probably want:
> SDL_SetRenderDrawColor(Uint8 r, Uint8 g, Uint8 b, Uint8 a);
> SDL_SetRenderDrawBlendMode(SDL_BlendMode blendMode);
> SDL_RenderLine(int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2);
> SDL_RenderFill(SDL_Rect *rect);
>
> You probably also want to add API functions query the current state.
>
I have implemented the above api for the opengl, x11, directfb and
software renderers. I have also renamed *TEXTUREBLENDMODE* constants to
BLENDMODE*. The unix build compiles. The windows renderer still needs to
be updated, but I have no windows development machine at hand. Have a
look at the x11 renderer for a sample.
Vector games now run at 90% both on opengl and directfb in comparison to
sdlmame's own opengl renderer. The same applies to raster games.
The diff also includes
a) Changed XDrawRect to XFillRect in x11 renderer
b) A number of changes to fix blending and modulation issues in the
directfb renderer.
The API specifies that SDL_OpenAudio() will fill out the 'desired' audio spec
with the correct samples and size set by the driver. This value is important
since it may be used by applications that size audio buffers, etc.
However, we want to allow advanced applications to call SDL_OpenAudioDevice()
which gets passed a const 'desired' parameter, and have the correct data filled
into the 'obtained' parameter, possibly allowing or not allowing format changes.
So... 'obtained' becomes the audio format the user callback is expected to use,
and we add flags to allow the application to specify which format changes are
allowed.
Note: We really need to add a way to query the 'obtained' audio spec.
One or two things got moved around, but largely this is hooked up correctly
in the Unix configure system now: it can be dynamically loaded and fallback
gracefully if not available, or libXi can be directly linked to libSDL.
XInput support can be --disable'd from the configure script, too (defaults to
enabled).
Please note that while the framework is in place to gracefully fallback, the
current state of the source requires XInput. We'll need to adjust a few
things still to correct this.
Many-mouse and tablet support
by Szymon Wilczek, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon
Everything concerning the project is noted on the wiki:
http://wilku.ravenlord.ws/doku.php?id=start
From: Christian Walther
Subject: SDL 1.3 Xcode projects
Here are my promised updates to the Xcode projects. They work as far
as I'm using them, but I have not tested them thoroughly, and there
may still be some cruft left. In particular, I haven't checked whether
the frameworks still work on older versions of Mac OS X (are we still
targeting 10.2?), and whether Altivec/SSE optimizations are properly
done. Of note: I incremented the framework version to B to enable SDL
1.2 and 1.3 to coexist in a single framework.
Let me know if you see any problems.
Greetings
Christian
