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 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.
This better reflects how HDR content is actually used, e.g. most content is in the SDR range, with specular highlights and bright details beyond the SDR range, in the HDR headroom.
This more closely matches how HDR is handled on Apple platforms, as EDR.
This also greatly simplifies application code which no longer has to think about color scaling. SDR content is rendered at the appropriate brightness automatically, and HDR content is scaled to the correct range for the display HDR headroom.
The renderer will always use the sRGB colorspace for drawing, and will default to the sRGB output colorspace. If you want blending in linear space and HDR support, you can select the scRGB output colorspace, which is supported by the direct3d11 and direct3d12
This allows color operations to happen in linear space between sRGB input and sRGB output. This is currently supported on the direct3d11, direct3d12 and opengl renderers.
This is a good resource on blending in linear space vs sRGB space:
https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should-know-about-gamma/
Also added testcolorspace to verify colorspace changes
Whenever I have to fix something endianness-related, I always get
confused about whether the byte-oriented format that guarantees to put
red in byte 0 is RGBA8888 or RGBA32. (The answer is that it's RGBA32.)
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Sam Lantinga
Ryan C. Gordon
SDL Wiki Bot
Petar Popovic
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Amun
Cameron Cawley
Simon McVittie
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