Pressing the hardware back button on a Windows Phone 8 device will now cause SDL to emit a pair of key-down and key-up events, with the SDL scancode, SDL_SCANCODE_AC_BACK.
By default, if WinRT's native back-button-press events are not explicitly marked as 'handled', then Windows Phone will terminate the app. More details on Microsoft's reasoning behind this can be found on MSDN, at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj247550(v=vs.105).aspx
To mark back-button-press events as 'handled', set SDL_HINT_WINRT_HANDLE_BACK_BUTTON to 1. Setting it to anything else will cause these events to not be marked as 'handled'.
Due to limitations in Windows Phone's APIs, SDL will emit a virtual key-up event immediately after the back button's key-down event is registered. Unfortunately, Windows Phone 8 only allows one to register for back-button-press events, and not back-button-release events.
This change is only relevant for Windows 8, 8.1, and RT apps, and only for those that are network-enabled. Such apps must feature a link to a privacy policy, which must be displayed via the Windows Settings charm. This is needed to pass Windows Store app-certification.
Using SDL_SetHint, along with SDL_HINT_WINRT_PRIVACY_POLICY_URL and optionally SDL_HINT_WINRT_PRIVACY_POLICY_LABEL, will cause SDL/WinRT to create a link inside the Windows Settings charm, as invoked from within an SDL-based app.
Network-enabled Windows Phone apps do not need to set this hint, and should provide some sort of in-app means to display their privacy policy. Microsoft does not appear to provide an OS-integrated means for displaying such on Windows Phone.
The destination target's alpha wasn't getting set correctly in many cases. Among other problems, this prevented some alpha-blended textures from displaying correctly in Windows Phone 8's multitasking screen.
The d3d11 renderer now uses the same blending settings found in the d3d9 renderer.
The projection and view matrices are now computed ahead of time, as they both get computed in the same spot, and typically not often. If this does, however, become a performance problem later on, this change can always be reverted.
Previously, the shaders would get compiled separately, the output of which would need to be packaged into the app. This change should make SDL's dll be the only binary needed to include SDL in a WinRT app.
SDL 2.x recently accepted patches to enable OpenGL ES 2 support via Google's ANGLE library. The thought is to try to eventually merge SDL/WinRT's OpenGL code with SDL-official's.
Leszek Godlewski
As described in the other thread
(http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2013-November/091997.html),
I've run into a case of SDL2 not recognizing a wireless Xbox 360
controller receiver properly on Debian Linux amd64 testing.
Apparently, the generated GUID is slightly different.
Device in question:
Bus 001 Device 015: ID 045e:0291 Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 Wireless
Receiver for Windows
BurnSpamAddress
Steps to reproduce:
1. Grab the cursor with SDL_SetCursorGrab()
2. Alt-tab away from the window
3. Click on the titlebar of the window
This will cause the window to disappear underneath the taskbar!
This appears to be a general issue with ClipCursor() on windows, i.e. I am getting the same behavior if I call ClipCursor() directly.
It is caused by a feedback loop between the ClipCursor function and the modal resize/move event loop that handles mouse-based sizing on Windows.
Ghassan Al-Mashareqa
The SDL_ceil function is implemented incorrectly when HAVE_CEIL is not defined (HAVE_LIBC not defined).
The following code:
double val = SDL_ceil(2.3);
printf("%g", val);
prints "2.0", as STD_ceil is defined as:
double
SDL_ceil(double x)
{
#ifdef HAVE_CEIL
return ceil(x);
#else
return (double)(int)((x)+0.5);
#endif /* HAVE_CEIL */
}
This functions is used in the SDL_BuildAudioResampleCVT function of the audio subsystem (SDL_audiocvt.c), and causes a bug in that function.
Lets Android take care of which is the primary pointer (the one acting as the
mouse in SDL), reorganized the Java side code as well to make it easier to
understand.
David Ludwig
Sam Lantinga
Gabriel Jacobo
Philipp Wiesemann
Ryan C. Gordon