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.
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.
Haiku uses most of the standard pthread API, with a few #ifdefs where we
still need to fallback onto the old BeOS APIs.
BeOS, however, does not support pthreads (or maybe doesn't support it well),
so I'm unplugging support for the platform with this changeset. Be Inc went
out of business in 2001.
This bumps the build SDK level to 12 (up from 10). Runtime requirements remain
the same (at API level < 12 joystick support is disabled).
Also enables building SDL for armv7 and x86.
A port of the ANGLE library (OpenGL ES 2.0 for Direct3D) to WinRT, via https://github.com/stammen/angleproject, is used as a base.
To enable, clone 'angleproject' into the directory one above where SDL/WinRT is, open the file SDL/include/SDL_config_winrt.h, and uncomment the #defines that begin with 'SDL_VIDEO_OPENGL'. From there, apps can create an OpenGL capable SDL_Window via the flag, SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL, and an OpenGL ES 2 context via SDL_GL_CreateContext. The Direct3D 11.1 renderer cannot be used alongside SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL. Only Windows 8/8.1 is supported for now. Shaders may need to be precompiled, in some (all?) cases.
To enable the Debug Layer, set the hint, SDL_HINT_RENDER_DIRECT3D11_DEBUG to '1'.
The Debug Layer will be turned off by default, both in Release and Debug builds (of SDL).
J?nis R?cis
Reopening as compilation with ANSI C throws lots of unnecessary warnings, both using MinGW and using Linux GCC. (BTW, what happened? MinGW is broken to all hell. sdl2-config does not even link SDLMain anymore?)
I think this may have been lost somewhere, so again: GCC supports inlining via __inline__ in all known versions of GCC, regardless of the C standard in use. Please don't assume that __STRICT_ANSI__ implies no inlining support.
Andreas Ertelt
The problem in question is caused by changeset 7771 (http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/5486e579872e / https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2121)
The redefinition of __inline__ (introduced by the addition of begin_code.h:128's "|| __STRICT_ANSI__") results in mingw's gcc throwing multiple
warning: always_inline function might not be inlinable [-Wattributes]
as well as a whole bunch of redefinitions of mingw internals which break linking of projects including the SDL2 headers.
norfanin
Fixes the version check for some functions that are only present with the MSVC 2013 CRT libraries.
I did my testing wrong and failed to see that 2012 doesn't have these functions. Microsoft implemented them in their upcoming 2013 version, though. The attached patch changes it to the check for the next version.
I also removed the HAVE_ITOA because that would require linking with oldnames.lib and it's easier to just let the SDL implementation take over.
This is part of an overall effort to use the name, "WinRT", rather than "WindowsRT" (or "Windows RT"), as the shorthand name often seems to mean something different than the longhand name. (WinRT is an API, Windows RT is a product name)
David Ludwig
Gabriel Jacobo
Ryan C. Gordon
Sam Lantinga
Philipp Wiesemann