SDL considers a hidden window to be unmapped and blocks or defers certain operations until the window is shown again, however, the X11 and Cocoa backends would set the hidden flag when the window was minimized, which blocked the functionality of SDL_RestoreWindow().
Specify that a window with the hidden flag set is unmapped and not visible on the desktop or in the dock/taskbar without a call to SDL_ShowWindow(), and don't set the hidden flag in the X11 and Cocoa backends when the window is in the minimized state, but still mapped to the desktop.
Add SDL_ShowWindowSystemMenu() to display the system-level menu for windows. Typically, this is done by right-clicking on the system provided window decorations, however, if an application is rendering its own client-side decorations, there is currently no way to display it. This menu is provided by the system and can provide privileged desktop functionality such as moving or pinning a window to a specific workspace or display, setting the always-on-top property, or taking screenshots. In many cases, there are no APIs which allow applications to perform these actions manually.
Implemented for Wayland via functionality provided by the xdg_toplevel protocol, Win32 via the undocumented message 0x313 (typically called WM_POPUPSYSTEMMENU), and X11 via the "_GTK_SHOW_WINDOW_MENU" atom (supported in GNOME and KDE).
Adds the SDL_EVENT_WINDOW_OCCLUDED events and the window flag SDL_WINDOW_OCCLUDED to report when the window occlusion state has changed, so that the application can take appropriate measures, as it may wish to suspend drawing, throttle, or otherwise behave in a more energy efficient manner when the window is not visible. When the window is no longer occluded, the SDL_EVENT_WINDOW_EXPOSED event is sent and the occlusion flag is cleared.
This is handled on macOS via the window occlusion state event (available as of 10.9), and via the xdg-shell protocol on Wayland (version 6, wayland-protocols 1.32, passed through in libdecor 0.1.2).
Also renamed SDL_GetDisplayOrientation() SDL_GetDisplayCurrentOrientation()
The natural orientation of the primary display is the frame of reference for accelerometer and gyro sensor readings.
We have gotten feedback that abstracting the coordinate system based on the display scale is unexpected and it is difficult to adapt existing applications to the proposed API.
The new approach is to provide the coordinate systems that people expect, but provide additional information that will help applications properly handle high DPI situations.
The concepts needed for high DPI support are documented in README-highdpi.md. An example of automatically adapting the content to display scale changes can be found in SDL_test_common.c, where auto_scale_content is checked.
Also, the SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI window flag has been replaced by the SDL_HINT_VIDEO_ENABLE_HIGH_PIXEL_DENSITY hint.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/7709
It turns out there's a race condition on X11 where the window could be placed by the window manager while being placed by the application, so we need to have the initial position available at window creation.
Update the popup window creation documentation with additional info, remove the SDL_WINDOW_MOUSE_GRABBED flag check since it isn't a valid window creation flag and will be removed automatically elsewhere, and check for and remove the explicit skip taskbar and borderless flags since they are implicit for popup windows.
Add the CreatePopupWindow function to allow the creation of child tooltip and menu popup windows. Popup windows must be created as either a tooltip or popup menu and cannot be minimized, maximized, made fullscreen, or grab the mouse.
Child popup windows are tracked and will be recursively hidden, shown, or destroyed in tandem with the parent window.
This function wasn't consistently correct across platforms and devices.
If you want the UI scale factor, you can use display_scale in the structure returned by SDL_GetDesktopDisplayMode(). If you need an approximate DPI, you can multiply this value times 160 on iPhone and Android, and 96 on other platforms.
This fixes rounding errors with coordinate scaling and gives more flexibility in the presentation, as well as making it easy to maintain device independent resolution as windows move between different pixel density displays.
By default when a renderer is created, it will match the window size so window coordinates and render coordinates are 1-1.
Mouse and touch events are no longer filtered to change their coordinates, instead you can call SDL_ConvertEventToRenderCoordinates() to explicitly map event coordinates into the rendering viewport.
SDL_RenderWindowToLogical() and SDL_RenderLogicalToWindow() have been renamed SDL_RenderCoordinatesFromWindow() and SDL_RenderCoordinatesToWindow() and take floating point coordinates in both directions.
The viewport, clipping state, and scale for render targets are now persistent and will remain set whenever they are active.
Rather than iterating over display modes using an index, there is a new function SDL_GetFullscreenDisplayModes() to get the list of available fullscreen modes on a display.
{
SDL_DisplayID display = SDL_GetPrimaryDisplay();
int num_modes = 0;
SDL_DisplayMode **modes = SDL_GetFullscreenDisplayModes(display, &num_modes);
if (modes) {
for (i = 0; i < num_modes; ++i) {
SDL_DisplayMode *mode = modes[i];
SDL_Log("Display %" SDL_PRIu32 " mode %d: %dx%d@%gHz, %d%% scale\n",
display, i, mode->pixel_w, mode->pixel_h, mode->refresh_rate, (int)(mode->display_scale * 100.0f));
}
SDL_free(modes);
}
}
SDL_GetDesktopDisplayMode() and SDL_GetCurrentDisplayMode() return pointers to display modes rather than filling in application memory.
Windows now have an explicit fullscreen mode that is set, using SDL_SetWindowFullscreenMode(). The fullscreen mode for a window can be queried with SDL_GetWindowFullscreenMode(), which returns a pointer to the mode, or NULL if the window will be fullscreen desktop. SDL_SetWindowFullscreen() just takes a boolean value, setting the correct fullscreen state based on the selected mode.
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