This is the best option for macOS and iOS, the only platforms with Metal.
Pre-Metal versions of these platforms will fall back to OpenGL (ES), as
appropriate.
Huge thanks to Alexander Szpakowski, who worked incredibly hard to get the
Metal renderer to such a high-quality state!
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2168): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2168): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2175): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2175): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2322): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2322): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2322): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2322): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2329): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2329): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2329): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/SDL_render.c(2329): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c(602): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c(602): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c(602): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
./src/render/software/SDL_render_sw.c(602): Error! E1054: Expression must be constant
- high-level filters out duplicate render commands from the queue so
backends don't have to.
- Setting draw color is now a render command, so backends can put color
information into the vertex buffer to upload with everything else instead
of setting it with slower dynamic data later.
- backends can request that they always batch, even for legacy programs,
since the lowlevel API can deal with it (Metal, and eventually Vulkan
and such...)
- high-level makes sure the queue has at least one setdrawcolor and
setviewport command before any draw calls, so the backends don't ever have
to manage cases where this hasn't been explicitly set yet.
- backends allocating vertex buffer space can specify alignment, and the
high-level will keep track of gaps in the buffer between the last used
positions and the aligned data that can be used for later allocations
(Metal and such need to specify some constant data on 256 byte boundaries,
but we don't want to waste all that space we had to skip to meet alignment
requirements).
Sylvain
Patch a few warnings when using:
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wdocumentation -Wdocumentation-unknown-command
They are automatically enabled with -Wall
Anthony @ POW Games
SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface makes an internal call to SDL_GetColorKey which can return an error and spams the error log with "Surface doesn't have a colorkey" even though the original function didn't return an error.
Olli-Samuli Lehmus
If one creates a window with the SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP flag, and creates a render target with SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_RENDER_SCALE_QUALITY, "linear"), and afterwards sets SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_RENDER_SCALE_QUALITY, "nearest"), after minimizing the window, the scale quality hint is lost on the render target. Textures however do keep their interpolation modes.
Eric wing
There is a tiny bug in the new overscan code for the SDL_renderer.
In SDL_renderer.c, line 1265, the if check for SDL_strcasecmp with "direct3d" needs to be inverted.
Instead of:
if(SDL_strcasecmp("direct3d", SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver())) {
It should be:
if(0 == SDL_strcasecmp("direct3d", SDL_GetCurrentVideoDriver())) {
This bug causes the "overscan" mode to pretty much be completely ignored in all cases and all things remain letterboxed (as before the feature).
This isn't complete, but is enough to run testsprite2. It's currently
Mac-only; with a little work to figure out how to properly glue in a Metal
layer to a UIView, this will likely work on iOS, too.
This is only wired up to the configure script right now, and disabled by
default. CMake and Xcode still need their bits filled in as appropriate.
Martin Gerhardy
just for easier debugging issues in the own code...
SDL_CreateRenderer should maybe also use this macro
Ryan C. Gordon
I'll go one better: it should have an SDL_assert().
Eric wing
Hi, I think I found a bug when using SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI with SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize on iOS. I use SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize for all my stuff. I just tried turning on SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI on iOS and suddenly all my touch/mouse positions are really broken/far-off-the-mark.
I actually don't have a real retina device (still) so I'm seeing this using the iOS simulator with a 6plus template.
Attached is a simple test program that can reproduce the problem. It uses RenderSetLogicalSize and draws some moving happy faces (to show the boundaries/space of the LogicalSize and that it is working correctly for that part).
When you click/touch, it will draw one more happy face where your button point is.
If you comment out SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI, everything works as expected. But if you compile with it in, the mouse coordinates seem really far off the mark. (Face appears far up and to the left.)
Alex Szpakowski on the mailing list suggests the problem is
"I believe this is a bug in SDL_Render?s platform-agnostic mouse coordinate scaling code. It assumes the units of the mouse coordinates are always in pixels, which isn?t the case where high-DPI is involved (regardless of whether iOS is used) ? they?re actually in ?DPI independent? coordinates (which matches the window size, but not the renderer output size)."
Additionally, if this is correct, the Mac under Retina is also probably affected too and "as well as any other platform SDL adds high-dpi support for in the future".
felix
Here's a snippet of SDL_DestroyRenderer from hg revision 10746:7540ff5d0e0e:
SDL_Texture *texture = NULL;
SDL_Texture *nexttexture = NULL;
/* ... */
for (texture = renderer->textures; texture; texture = nexttexture) {
nexttexture = texture->next;
SDL_DestroyTexture(texture);
}
SDL_DestroyTexture removes the texture from the linked list pointed to by the renderer and ends up calling SDL_DestroyTextureInternal, which contains this:
if (texture->native) {
SDL_DestroyTexture(texture->native);
}
If it happens that texture->native is an alias of nexttexture two stack frames up, SDL_DestroyRenderer will end up trying to destroy an already freed texture. I've had this very situation happen in dosemu2.
Bug introduced in revision 10650:a8253d439914, which has a somewhat ironic description of "Fixed all known static analysis bugs"...
D39 does not support negative viewport values which the current implementation relies on.
D3D11 does support negative viewport values so that will continue working.
Refer to Bug 2799.
Adam M.
When doing a rotated texture copy with the software renderer, where the angle is a multiple of 90 degrees, one or two edges of the image get cut off. This is because of the following line in sw_rotate.c:
if ((unsigned)dx < (unsigned)sw && (unsigned)dy < (unsigned)sh) {
which is effectively saying:
if (dx >= 0 && dx < src->w-1 && dy >= 0 && dy < src->h-1) {
As a result, it doesn't process pixels in the right column or bottom row of the source image (except when they're accessed as part of the bilinear filtering for nearby pixels). This causes it to look like the edges are cut off, and it's especially obvious with an exact multiple of 90 degrees.
Daniel
Seems like check of the visibility of renderer (renderer->hidden) is missing in SDL_RenderCopyEx.
In SDL_RenderCopy it should be done much earlier (after checking support for RenderCopyEx, line 1750).
Ryan C. Gordon
Sylvain Becker
Ozkan Sezer
Sam Lantinga
Philipp Wiesemann
Eric Wing
Ethan Lee