Also renamed most cases of SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_UNKNOWN to SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_STANDARD, and SDL_GetGamepadType() will return SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_UNKNOWN only if the gamepad is invalid.
Removing SDL_GAMEPAD_TYPE_VIRTUAL allows a virtual controller to emulate another gamepad type. The other controller types can be treated as generic controllers by applications without special glyph or functionality treatment.
This will simplify the X11 and Wayland implementations, which were doing that under the hood, and makes application interaction between the two APIs consistent.
The destination rectangle passed to SDL_BlitSurface() and SDL_BlitSurfaceScaled() is non-const and filled in with the final destination rectangle after clipping, and now documented as such.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/7911
This allows the application to tell when a joystick polling cycle is complete and can process state changes as a single atomic update. It is disabled by default, at least for now.
Also renamed SDL_GetDisplayOrientation() SDL_GetDisplayCurrentOrientation()
The natural orientation of the primary display is the frame of reference for accelerometer and gyro sensor readings.
Add aspect-correct output of scaled video modes and a hint to control this behavior (aspect, stretch, or none).
The Wayland spec states that fullscreen surfaces that do not cover the entire output shall be centered with the borders masked by the compositor, so no additional work is required aside from calculating the proper window dimensions.
The default is still 'stretch' mode, as some window managers as of this time (KDE and older versions of GNOME still found in LTS distros) don't behave according to the spec and present an unmasked window that is not centered, so it's not yet safe to change the default.
Consolidate the X11_WMCLASS and WAYLAND_WMCLASS envvars into one SDL_HINT_APP_ID hint. This hint serves the same purpose on both windowing systems to allow desktop compositors to identify and group windows together, as well as associate applications with their desktop settings and icons.
The common code for retrieving the value is now consolidated under core/unix/SDL_appid.c as it's common to *nix platforms, and the value is now retrieved at window creation time instead of being cached by the video driver at startup so that changes to the hint after video initialization and before window creation will be seen, as well as to accommodate cases where applications want to use different values for different windows.
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