It was intended to make the API easier to use, but various automatic garbage collection all had flaws, and making the application periodically clean up temporary memory added cognitive load to using the API, and in many cases was it was difficult to restructure threaded code to handle this.
So, we're largely going back to the original system, where the API returns allocated results and you free them.
In addition, to solve the problems we originally wanted temporary memory for:
* Short strings with a finite count, like device names, get stored in a per-thread string pool.
* Events continue to use temporary memory internally, which is cleaned up on the next event processing cycle.
Implemented using these sed commands on the headers:
sed -E -i'' '/SDLCALL|;/ s,([a-z])\* ,\1 *,g' *
sed -E -i'' 's,(\(.*[^\*])\* ([a-z])(.*\)),\1*\2\3,g' *
sed -E -i'' 's,\*const,* const,g' *
sed -E -i'' 's,\*SDLCALL,* SDLCALL,g' *
sed -E -i'' 's,void\(,void (,g' *
git checkout *gl*
Applying these changes to external code doesn't actually improve anything, and within the context of the other Get* functions for renderers and surfaces, these stand out as outliers, so I'm going to back this change out.
SDL_Surface has been simplified and internal details are no longer in the public structure.
The `format` member of SDL_Surface is now an enumerated pixel format value. You can get the full details of the pixel format by calling `SDL_GetPixelFormatDetails(surface->format)`. You can get the palette associated with the surface by calling SDL_GetSurfacePalette(). You can get the clip rectangle by calling SDL_GetSurfaceClipRect().
SDL_PixelFormat has been renamed SDL_PixelFormatDetails and just describes the pixel format, it does not include a palette for indexed pixel types.
SDL_PixelFormatEnum has been renamed SDL_PixelFormat and is used instead of Uint32 for API functions that refer to pixel format by enumerated value.
SDL_MapRGB(), SDL_MapRGBA(), SDL_GetRGB(), and SDL_GetRGBA() take an optional palette parameter for indexed color lookups.
I didn't add a note to SDL_DestroyWindow() because we actually protect against this case now, but it's useful information to know conceptually when working with the renderer.
After discussion with @ocornut, SDL_RenderGeometryRaw() will take floating point colors and conversion from 8-bit color can happen on the application side. We can always add an 8-bit color fast path in the future if we need it on handheld platforms.
If you need code to do this in your application, you can use the following:
int SDL_RenderGeometryRaw8BitColor(SDL_Renderer *renderer, SDL_Texture *texture, const float *xy, int xy_stride, const SDL_Color *color, int color_stride, const float *uv, int uv_stride, int num_vertices, const void *indices, int num_indices, int size_indices)
{
int i, retval, isstack;
const Uint8 *color2 = (const Uint8 *)color;
SDL_FColor *color3;
if (num_vertices <= 0) {
return SDL_InvalidParamError("num_vertices");
}
if (!color) {
return SDL_InvalidParamError("color");
}
color3 = (SDL_FColor *)SDL_small_alloc(SDL_FColor, num_vertices, &isstack);
if (!color3) {
return -1;
}
for (i = 0; i < num_vertices; ++i) {
color3[i].r = color->r / 255.0f;
color3[i].g = color->g / 255.0f;
color3[i].b = color->b / 255.0f;
color3[i].a = color->a / 255.0f;
color2 += color_stride;
color = (const SDL_Color *)color2;
}
retval = SDL_RenderGeometryRaw(renderer, texture, xy, xy_stride, color3, sizeof(*color3), uv, uv_stride, num_vertices, indices, num_indices, size_indices);
SDL_small_free(color3, isstack);
return retval;
}
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/9009
These are integer values internally, but the API has been changed to make it easier to mix other render code with querying those values.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/7519
This declares that any `const char *` returned from SDL is owned by SDL, and
promises to be valid _at least_ until the next time the event queue runs, or
SDL_Quit() is called, even if the thing that owns the string gets destroyed
or changed before then.
This is noted in the headers as "the SDL_GetStringRule", so this will both be
greppable to find a detailed explaination in docs/README-strings.md and
wikiheaders will automatically turn it into a link we can point at the
appropriate documentation.
Fixes#9902.
(and several FIXMEs, both known and yet-undocumented.)
Sam Lantinga