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SDL 2.0 port

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serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

Hi ppl , I can not remember who but someone was working on porting SDL 2.0, what's the current state?

amigamiaAdmin

Posted 4 months ago

I was but stopped for a while. I just recently picked it up again and tried to compile with no changes applied but still no luck. I am going to post some progress soon and perhaps with the help of the community we achieve this.

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deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 4 months ago

If you have specific questions and your modified source code is available somewhere to view I can try helping with compilation errors.

serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

I agree with deadwood,

I had a sneaky peek for my project need, one area might be bit problematic, mos uses sensor hid and os4 uses amigainput.library for joystick and joypad, we don't have any of them, I recompiled xinput class and library but that limits to only xinput controllers , I am not sure what's the best way to go by this.

I see few options..
1.use old sdl 1.2 joystick implemention or
2.use a usb gamepad hid.class (I think that's what morphos done , than again just guessing)

How would we implement? Option 2 maybe , we can configure the buttons and gamepad.hid sees every usb joypad I connect so far.

Do we compile a library arround hid.class and make the calls via hid.class or compile a cut down version of hid.class only for usb joypads/joysticks.

I mean separate joypad implementation from hid.class and call it sensors.hid like morphos or something else..

Any ideas ladies and gent..

Edited by serk118uk on 09-01-2024 10:24, 4 months ago

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 4 months ago

I assume you mean that SDL2 sources for OS4 use internally amigainput.library and SDL2 sources for MOS use sensor.hid internally? Is that correct understanding?

serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - I assume you mean that SDL2 sources for OS4 use internally amigainput.library and SDL2 sources for MOS use sensor.hid internally? Is that correct understanding?

Yes correct deadwood...

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 4 months ago

Can you point me to those sources (both for OS4 and MOS) where SDL2 is making calls into those modules (amigainput and sensor)?

serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - Can you point me to those sources (both for OS4 and MOS) where SDL2 is making calls into those modules (amigainput and sensor)?

Mos
https://github.co...joystick.c

Os 4
https://github.co...joystick.c

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 4 months ago

Ok, I had a quick look.

First of all the question is which version @amigamia is porting? Looking at the repository, AmigaOS4 version is not changed since 7 years, while MorphOS version seems to be kept up-to-date.

Additionally, the API of amigaimput is used via interfaces, so the codes would have to change even if we developed amigainput clone.

I looked at MorphOS version and sensors.library API seems to be quite straighforward. You can find it in MorphOS SDK.

All in all and taking into account that I don't know much about how joysticks are handled, I'd agree with your assesment of implementing sensors.library as a wrapper over APIs exposed by Poseidon.

GundamJunior Member

Posted 4 months ago

#10

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood
...
... I don't know much about how joysticks are handled
...
.

You have to use "lowlevel.library" to handle joysticks.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Docs/Libraries/LowLevel

serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

#11

Gundam wrote:

@Gundam -
deadwood wrote:
@deadwood
...
... I don't know much about how joysticks are handled
...
.

You have to use "lowlevel.library" to handle joysticks.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Docs/Libraries/LowLevel

Just checked Lowlevel.library sourcecode and
Lowlevel.library is patched to use poseidon but Lowlevel.library limited and not really a option.

My understanding not either so great about joypads looking at Sdl 2.0, the below functions from connected joypad or joystick.

Get_Joy_name()
Get_Joypad_Buttons()
Get_Joypad_Axis()
Get_Joypad_Hats()

How would i get above functions , for example number of buttons using Lowlevel.library ?

serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

#12

serk118uk wrote:

@serk118uk -
Gundam wrote:
@Gundam -
deadwood wrote:
@deadwood
...
... I don't know much about how joysticks are handled
...
.

You have to use "lowlevel.library" to handle joysticks.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Docs/Libraries/LowLevel

Just checked Lowlevel.library sourcecode and
Lowlevel.library is patched to use poseidon but Lowlevel.library limited and not really a option.

My understanding not either so great about joypads, below functions from connected joypads or joysticks needed for sdl to function rightly.

(Temp function names but close enough lol)
Get_Joy_name()
Get_Joypad_Buttons()
Get_Joypad_Axis()
Get_Joypad_Hats()

How would i get above functions , for example number of buttons using Lowlevel.library ?

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 4 months ago

#13

Thanks for reminding about lowlevel.library. It is indeed limited in a sense that it supports what Amiga had: mouse, digital joystick and CD-32 game pad. There seems to be some extensions for analog joystics done by Poseidon.

As to question about Get_ functions. You can probably just say 1 button, 2 axes, 0 hats and you will have Amiga-like joystick configuration and then you could use lowlevel.library. That's probably a good start.

amigamiaAdmin

Posted 4 months ago

#14

Hi all, at first I was looking at the AOS4 source code but after a chat with one of the developers the suggestion came to switch to MOS code because it had many AROS similarities. However, I have not made any changes. Basically it's like I never started on modifying the MOS code.

It is best if we start from scratch and place the code on a git... server somewhere.

serk118ukSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

#15

amigamia wrote:

@amigamia - Hi all, at first I was looking at the AOS4 source code but after a chat with one of the developers the suggestion came to switch to MOS code because it had many AROS similarities. However, I have not made any changes. Basically it's like I never started on modifying the MOS code.

It is best if we start from scratch and place the code on a git... server somewhere.

A github repo?

magoriumSoftware Dev

Posted 4 months ago

#16

serk118uk wrote:

@serk118uk -
A github repo?

For os4 support ? see here.

amigamiaAdmin

Posted 4 months ago

#17

Here is the old thread where I did some testing with SDL 2.0

https://arosworld.org/infusions/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=1087&highlight=SDL+2&rowstart=0

Here is the response I received from the developer of AOS 4 SDL version:

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Hi .....
First of all, that's the old repo. The new repo for AmigaOS 4.x is this one: https://github.co...ts/SDL-2.0
Sendond, I think it would be easier to port the MorphOS version, since MorphOS API more closely resembles AmigaOS 3.x and AROS API: https://github.co...ld2018/SDL

I thought SDL 2 was already ported to AROS (abiv1)?

Edited by amigamia on 10-01-2024 19:17, 4 months ago

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