Allow setting a parent/child relationship on toplevel windows, which allows raising sets of windows together, and allows child windows to always float above their parents.
Modal windows are now set by setting the parent, then toggling modal status, as the previous interface duplicated functionality now handled by SDL_SetWindowParent().
Most SDL functions used to indicate success or failure using an int return code. These functions have been changed to return SDL_bool.
Here is a coccinelle patch to change code that previously compared the return value to 0 and changes it to a boolean test:
@ bool_return_type @
identifier func =~ 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derDrawColor|SDL_SetRenderDrawColorFloat|SDL_SetRenderLogicalPresentation|SDL_SetRenderScale|SDL_SetRenderTarget|SDL_SetRenderVSync|SDL_SetRenderViewport|SDL_SetScancodeName|SDL_SetStringProperty|SDL_SetSurfaceAlphaMod|SDL_SetSurfaceBlendMode|SDL_SetSurfaceColorKey|SDL_SetSurfaceColorMod|SDL_SetSurfaceColorspace|SDL_SetSurfacePalette|SDL_SetSurfaceRLE|SDL_SetTLS|SDL_SetTextInputArea|SDL_SetTextureAlphaMod|SDL_SetTextureAlphaModFloat|SDL_SetTextureBlendMode|SDL_SetTextureColorMod|SDL_SetTextureColorModFloat|SDL_SetTextureScaleMode|SDL_SetThreadPriority|SDL_SetWindowAlwaysOnTop|SDL_SetWindowAspectRatio|SDL_SetWindowBordered|SDL_SetWindowFocusable|SDL_SetWindowFullscreen|SDL_SetWindowFullscreenMode|SDL_SetWindowHitTest|SDL_SetWindowIcon|SDL_SetWindowKeyboardGrab|SDL_SetWindowMaximumSize|SDL_SetWindowMinimumSize|SDL_SetWindowModalFor|SDL_SetWindowMouseGrab|SDL_SetWindowMouseRect|SDL_SetWindowOpacity|SDL_SetWindowPosition|SDL_SetWindowRelativeMouseMode|SDL_SetWindowResizable|SDL_SetWindowShape|SDL_SetWindowSize|SDL_SetWindowSurfaceVSync|SDL_SetWindowTitle|SDL_SetiOSAnimationCallback|SDL_ShowAndroidToast|SDL_ShowCursor|SDL_ShowMessageBox|SDL_ShowSimpleMessageBox|SDL_ShowWindow|SDL_ShowWindowSystemMenu|SDL_StartTextInput|SDL_StartTextInputWithProperties|SDL_StopHapticEffect|SDL_StopHapticEffects|SDL_StopHapticRumble|SDL_StopTextInput|SDL_SyncWindow|SDL_TimeToDateTime|SDL_TryLockMutex|SDL_TryLockRWLockForReading|SDL_TryLockRWLockForWriting|SDL_TryWaitSemaphore|SDL_UnlockAudioStream|SDL_UpdateHapticEffect|SDL_UpdateNVTexture|SDL_UpdateTexture|SDL_UpdateWindowSurface|SDL_UpdateWindowSurfaceRects|SDL_UpdateYUVTexture|SDL_Vulkan_CreateSurface|SDL_Vulkan_LoadLibrary|SDL_WaitConditionTimeout|SDL_WaitSemaphoreTimeout|SDL_WarpMouseGlobal|SDL_WriteStorageFile|SDL_WriteSurfacePixel|SDL_WriteSurfacePixelFloat)$";
@@
(
func(
...
)
- == 0
|
- func(
+ !func(
...
)
- < 0
|
- func(
+ !func(
...
)
- != 0
|
- func(
+ !func(
...
)
- == -1
)
This is undocumented since the individual flags are separate window creation properties, but it's useful to have a shared definition for this, which is used internally and for migrating code from SDL2.
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*
This was done to SDL_DisplayMode for consistency with SDL_Surface and gives it a type so we don't have to do casts in SDL code.
I considered switching to an ID and hashing the driver data, etc. but all of that involved a lot of internal code churn and this solution gives us flexibility in how we handle this in the future.
After consideration, I made this renaming global across the project, for consistency.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/10198
Turns out that there isn't a strong OpenGL naming convention for "Delete" ...
WGL offers "wglDeleteContext" but the GLX equivalent is "glxDestroyContext"
and then EGL sealed the deal by going with Destroy as well! Since it matches
SDL3 naming conventions (Create/Destroy), we're renaming it.
Fixes#10197.
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.
The result of SDL_RaiseWindow is ultimately subject to window manager policy, particularly if the request would result in stealing focus from another window. Document that this is only a request, and if successful, will result in a focus gained event along with the input focus flag being set on the window.
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.
This was added to SDL2 for the Unreal Engine's implementation of menus and dialogs on X11, window types for which SDL3 has added built-in, cross-platform support.
Remove this function, as it was only ever implemented for X11 and is now basically useless aside from allowing annoying or malicious client apps to discretely steal focus. As the documentation states: "You almost certainly want SDL_RaiseWindow() instead of this function."
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.)
This extends the display scaling mode to be global and work in terms of pixels everywhere, with the content scale value set on displays. The per-window property had some issues, and has been removed in favor of retaining only the global hint that changes all coordinates to pixel values, sets the content scale on the displays, and generally makes the Wayland backend behave similarly to Win32 or X11.
Some additional work was needed to fix cases where displays can appear to overlap, since Wayland desktops are always described in logical coordinates, and attempting to adjust the display positions so that they don't overlap can get very ugly in all but the simplest cases, as large gaps between displays can result.
Queries the "panel orientation" property on the connector and reports it in degrees of clockwise rotation via the 'SDL.display.KMSDRM.panel_orientation' display property.
This is provided by the kernel as a hint to userspace applications, and the application itself is ultimately responsible for any required coordinate transformations needed to conform to the requested orientation.
- Adds support for modal windows to Win32, Mac, and Haiku, and enhances functionality on Wayland and X11, which previous set only the parent window, but not the modal state.
- Windows can be declared modal at creation time, and the modal state can be toggled at any time via SDL_SetWindowModalFor() (tested with UE5 through sdl2-compat).
- Allows dynamic unparenting/reparenting of windows.
- Includes a modal window test.
The idea is that if you have a `typedef Uint32 MyFlags` that has a bunch of
defines that are meant to be bitflags, you can pack them into the same wiki
page automatically.
This only works with `typedef`s that are _not_ struct/union/enums, and it
only pulls in `#define` lines that immediately follow the typedef line.
Even a blank line or a comment will signal to stop including lines for
this page!
This is just stuff I noticed while working on the wikiheaders updates. A
thorough pass over all the docs would not be terrible, and maybe a simple
script to check for consistency (does everything have a `\since` on it? etc)
might be nice, too.
Ryan C. Gordon
SDL Wiki Bot
Frank Praznik
Sam Lantinga
Kaktus514
Eduard Gushchin
Eduard Gushchin
Anonymous Maarten
Green Sky
Semphris
Petar Popovic