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Sam Lantinga 362d549690 Fixed bug 2500 - X11: SDL tries (and fails) to hide foreign windows
Alvin

I'm interested in this bug as well. I have experienced it when trying to embed an SDL_Window into a FLTK application. To do this, I create a FLTK window (window inside a window - think video player) and then use SDL_CreateWindowFrom() on the inner most window's Xlib Window*. After which, I create a renderer.

In my situation I am using the FLTK GUI toolkit.

What I have experienced is that the SDL_CreateRender() will recreate the window in order to properly setup OpenGL capability. As part of this process, the window is hidden and a call is executed that waits indefinitely for an acknowledgement that the window was indeed unmapped. This is where my program hangs.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but should SDL2 not make Xlib calls that effect the Xlib Window in this situation (e.g. When SDL_CreateWindowFrom() is used)? The toolkit being used typically assumes responsibility and, I presume, tracks all Xlib Windows it creates.

On line src/video/SDL_video.c:1372 the comment associated with setting SDL_WINDOW_FOREIGN reads:

  /* Can't destroy and re-create foreign windows, hrm */

Since I do not know the reason for hiding the window in the first place, the attached patch simply does not wait for a response when X11_XWithdrawWindow() and X11_XMapRaised() are issued by X11_HideWindow() and X11_ShowWindow(), respectively. I presume that the GUI toolkit (GTK, FLTK, etc.) has or will consume the acknowledging event as it is managing the Xlib Window (or it thinks it is).

I have tested the patch against hg 5c645d037de2 and I have successfully tested:
* Embedding the SDL_Window inside a FLTK application.
* Calling SDL_SetWindowSize() when FLTK resizes the window (e.g. dragging cursor on the edge of the window).
* Filling the renderer's default target blue and drawing a red fill square at the centre (exciting, I know!)
* Calling SDL_Quit() when the application terminates

I do not receive any Xlib erorr messages (BadWindow, etc.) in any of those situations.
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VisualC Updated Visual Studio 2008 project 2017-07-10 15:55:13 -07:00
VisualC-WinRT WinRT: removed Windows 8.0 from build-bot + NuGet package creation scripts 2017-02-25 21:23:12 -05:00
Xcode Updated copyright for 2017 2017-01-01 18:33:28 -08:00
Xcode-iOS ios: Fixed math include in demos. 2017-05-25 23:01:59 +02:00
acinclude Fixed bug 3481 - Configure fails to detect dynamic library support on powerpc64le 2016-11-06 20:26:48 -08:00
android-project Fixed bug 3191 - haptic system on android? 2017-08-14 06:18:08 -07:00
build-scripts Fixed bug 2839 - No way to create pre-built libraries for Android 2017-08-13 17:59:59 -07:00
cmake cmake: whoops, Sam and I both fixed this bug at the same time. :) 2017-08-09 22:34:45 -04:00
debian We don't actually build with the Xt library 2017-01-10 23:23:32 -08:00
docs README-linux.md: added libsndio-dev to the package list. 2017-08-07 00:36:45 -04:00
include Fixed bug 3752 - minor os2 defines 2017-08-14 10:15:38 -07:00
src Fixed bug 2500 - X11: SDL tries (and fails) to hide foreign windows 2017-08-14 10:28:47 -07:00
test Implemented more flexible blending modes for accelerated renderers 2017-08-14 05:51:44 -07:00
visualtest Updated copyright for 2017 2017-01-01 18:33:28 -08:00
.hgignore wayland: Build own version of core protocol 2016-06-23 18:39:05 +08:00
Android.mk Fixed bug 2839 - No way to create pre-built libraries for Android 2017-08-13 17:59:59 -07:00
BUGS.txt BUGS.txt: Changed mailing list link to discourse.libsdl.org. 2017-04-01 00:05:25 -04:00
CMakeLists.txt Added wchar.h to fix build on some platforms with new wcs* functions 2017-08-13 22:26:44 -07:00
COPYING.txt Updated copyright for 2017 2017-01-01 18:33:28 -08:00
CREDITS.txt Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00
INSTALL.txt More HTTPS doc tweaks. 2017-02-16 16:59:07 -05:00
Makefile.in Fixed bug 3208 - Minor improvements to the configure script 2017-08-12 15:00:33 -07:00
Makefile.minimal Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00
Makefile.pandora pandora: Fixed compiler warning about redefining SDL_REVISION. 2017-06-18 23:00:27 +02:00
Makefile.psp PSP: Added missing object for generic TLS to Makefile. 2016-02-13 17:34:14 +01:00
Makefile.wiz Pandora: Updated SDL version in Makefile. 2016-07-19 21:01:30 +02:00
README-SDL.txt More HTTPS changes in the documentation. 2017-02-16 16:52:03 -05:00
README.txt readme: correct webpage URL to use HTTPS. 2017-02-16 13:30:34 -05:00
SDL2.spec.in Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00
SDL2Config.cmake Fixed bug 3651 - CMake build does not install CMake package configuration 2017-08-09 19:03:10 -07:00
TODO.txt Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00
VisualC.html Fixed two typos in documentation. 2016-01-12 22:23:53 +01:00
WhatsNew.txt Added note for David Carlier's work on OpenBSD 2016-10-12 18:57:12 -07:00
autogen.sh Don't use pushd/popd in autogen.sh; Ubuntu's /bin/sh doesn't support it. 2016-12-26 22:58:58 -05:00
cmake_uninstall.cmake.in Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00
configure Added wchar.h to fix build on some platforms with new wcs* functions 2017-08-13 22:26:44 -07:00
configure.in Added wchar.h to fix build on some platforms with new wcs* functions 2017-08-13 22:26:44 -07:00
sdl2-config.cmake.in Applied Ubuntu patch bug_822210_fix_sdl2-config.cmake_whitespace.patch 2016-10-07 15:08:37 -07:00
sdl2-config.in Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00
sdl2.m4 Fixed bug 3429 - Update AM_PATH_SDL2() to also check for SDL2.framework 2016-09-29 16:37:08 -07:00
sdl2.pc.in Fixed crash if initialization of EGL failed but was tried again later. 2015-06-21 17:33:46 +02:00

README.txt

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                         Simple DirectMedia Layer

                                  (SDL)

                                Version 2.0

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https://www.libsdl.org/

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed
to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics
hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software,
emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog
and many Humble Bundle games.

More extensive documentation is available in the docs directory, starting
with README.md

Enjoy!
	Sam Lantinga				(slouken@libsdl.org)