[maemo-developers] detect window iconified/maximized in SDL

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi,

CCing Kuisma, Maemo SW maintainer of the SDL packages.

ext Kees Jongenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Should we/I  start a small libsdl project on garage to address such issues?

And what would be the goal of such garage project? Isn't enough to file
bugs/patches against

http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/libs/libsdl1.2/
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/libs/libsdl-mixer1.2/
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/libs/libsdl-image1.2/


> 
> 
> Greetings
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:35 PM, W. de Hoog <wdehoog at exalondelft.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Do you have a separate thread that listens on the libosso callback stuff?
>>> That could work also if it "locks up" the main loop when display is turned off and
>>> (like your main thread) doesn't use SDL to wait for events.
>> I do not have a seperate thread for it. I did register my callback but
>> as I mailed, it is not being called back when the display goes on or
>> off. This is very weird and disappointing.
>>
>>> You can in select() listen on that file descriptor.  You could look for an example here:
>>> http://hg.berlios.de/repos/hatari/file/c6567e2a430d/src/control.c
>> Thanks for the link. However this seems a bit beyond my reach.
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> --
>> Willem-Jan de Hoog

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Software @ Nokia