SDL 1.3 Roadmap

This is a list of features which are in progress for the SDL 1.3 release. The features are organized by subsystem and assigned to developers. Features will move around as the design evolves.

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Video

Complete

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• green

• green

• green

• green

• green

• green

• green

Required

• Ryan: Implement landscape mode for iPhone port
• Sam: Add support for render targets
• Sam: Add support for OpenGL context profiles
• Sam: Create flags for specifying foreign window event behavior

• green

  • green

  • Mac OS X

  • green

Wishlist

• gray

• gray

• gray

• gray

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            setWindowFlags(Qt::SplashScreen);
    
            Qt::WindowFlags flags = 0;
                flags |= Qt::FramelessWindowHint;
                flags |= Qt::Tool;
                flags |= Qt::WindowStaysOnBottomHint;
    

Audio

Complete

• green

• green

Required

• green

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux

• green

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
• Ryan: Add support for audio device live connect and disconnect
• Ryan: Add support for non-power-of-two audio rate conversion

Wishlist

• gray

Event

Complete

• green

Required

• Sam: Add modifier state to key and button events

Wishlist

• gray

• gray

Mouse Input

Complete

• green

• green

• green

Required

• LordHavoc: Reimplement mouse grab support

  • Verify cursor location is correct when ungrabbed
  • Verify proper behavior with Vista DPI scaling

Wishlist

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  • Q: What is the mapping of individual mice to pointers? Is there a "master pointer" that multiple mice share and then events for the individual mice? Is there a dual mode, where you have a single pointer that all mice affect, and you can switch to multiple pointers, each affected by a single mouse?

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Keyboard Input

Complete

• green

Required

• Q: When you're enabling or disabling text events via keystroke, how do you ignore the text generated by the key that is toggling text input?
  • A: Key events are guaranteed to happen first

• Sam/Jiang/Daniel: Create IME API and support system IME interfaces

  • green

  • green

  • Linux
• Sam: Add name to keysym and name to scancode lookup functions

Joystick Input

Complete

• green

Required

• Ryan: Add support for joystick device live connect and disconnect

Multi-touch Input

Complete

• green

Multi-threading

Complete

• green

• green

• green

• green

Timers

Required

• Sam: Add higher precision timers for profiling

General

Complete

• green

Required

• Sam: Public license for SDL_compat.c, tests, and SDL_main*
• Sam: Figure out the best way to support simultaneous SDL 1.2 and SDL 1.3 installations
• Sam: Write introductions for SDL 1.3 API documentation
• Sheena: Finish 1.3 API documentation

Wishlist

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Ryan has more information on the SDL 1.3 changes that you can find here:
http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus&date=2007-10-07&section=sdl13