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renpytom · 11-02-2008, 10:27 AM

Okay, that did the trick, thanks!

There's several things I had to do to get SDL working on the iLiad:

- I had to patch SDL to work with the StaticGray visual.

Code:

--- src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c.old    2008-10-25 22:55:29.000000000 -0400
+++ src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c        2008-10-25 22:57:40.000000000 -0400
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@
                         } else {
                                 add_visual(this, depth_list[i], PseudoColor);
                                 add_visual(this, depth_list[i], StaticColor);
+                                add_visual(this, depth_list[i], StaticGray);
                         }
                 }
         }

- I had to set the SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS environment variable to "sh".

- It winds up that SDL doesn't really have support for StaticGray colors. So what I wound up doing was writing a routine that converts 24 bit color to 8 bit gray. Once I do that by hand, SDL takes care of drawing it to the string.

- I have to take care of refreshing the screen myself. But that's simple... I just open a udp socket to localhost:50555, and write "!0,3,0" to it.

But programming the iLiad in pygame is now possible, with some caveats.

11-02-2008, 10:27 AM	#3
renpytom Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: iliad	Okay, that did the trick, thanks! There's several things I had to do to get SDL working on the iLiad: - I had to patch SDL to work with the StaticGray visual. Code: --- src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c.old 2008-10-25 22:55:29.000000000 -0400 +++ src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c 2008-10-25 22:57:40.000000000 -0400 @@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ } else { add_visual(this, depth_list[i], PseudoColor); add_visual(this, depth_list[i], StaticColor); + add_visual(this, depth_list[i], StaticGray); } } } - I had to set the SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS environment variable to "sh". - It winds up that SDL doesn't really have support for StaticGray colors. So what I wound up doing was writing a routine that converts 24 bit color to 8 bit gray. Once I do that by hand, SDL takes care of drawing it to the string. - I have to take care of refreshing the screen myself. But that's simple... I just open a udp socket to localhost:50555, and write "!0,3,0" to it. But programming the iLiad in pygame is now possible, with some caveats.