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

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

Hi,

You might want to check out hildon-games-wrapper0 (Nokia-open) before
starting from scratch. We have SDL games that receive these events in
Diablo (and Fremantle).

BR; Kimmo

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:42 +0200, ext Kees Jongenburger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
> > 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/
> 
> Perhaps. Apparently a programs that does not listen to dbus events is not maemo
> friendly and a typical SDL programs will do just that(not listen to
> the events). If we can easily modify the SDL lib
> to map these event to standard events that would be great.
> 
> But not everything can and should be abstracted away sometime t's
> better to provide good examples,
> certainly if we need to integrate the dbus hander in the main loop.:p
> 
> Greetings
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >
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