SDL 1.3 Roadmap

Introduction

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.

Video

Complete

• green

• green

Required

• ???: Implement landscape mode for iPhone port
• Sam: Support for multiple displays

  • green

  • green

  • Linux
• Sam: Support for selecting video mode refresh rate

  • green

  • green

  • Linux
• ???: Add OpenGL 3.0 context support

Wishlist

• gray

Audio

Complete

• green

Mouse Input

Required

• Ryan: Support for multiple mice

• 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?

Keyboard Input

Required

• green

• 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
• Q: How do you handle key repeat?

*/

• Sam/Jiang: Implement IME API and support
  • Windows

  • green

  • Linux

Joystick Input

Complete

• green

  • green

  • green

  • green

Multi-touch Input

Required

• ???: Create and implement Multi-touch API

Multi-threading / CPU info

Complete

• green

  • green

  • green

  • green

Required

• Sam: Create and implement API for thread priority
  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
• Sam: Create and implement API for thread processor affinity
  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux

Timers

Required

• Add higher precision timers for profiling

General

Required

• Sam: Public license for SDL_compat.c, tests, and SDL_main*