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-SDL Perl v2.2.2 out and Plans for v2.4
+The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>The early bird may get the worm,</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>and the second mouse may get the cheese,</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>but I want neither the worm nor the cheese,</i><br /><i>'cause I am not a mouse or a bird.</i><br /><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><br /><br /> I have release v2.2.2 which includes several bug fixes:<br /><br /><ul><li>Made App loop() faster <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16988">RT</a> </li><li>Patched support for add support for gluquadric* sub <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=25598">RT</a> </li><li>Made App init slimer <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16987">RT</a> </li><li>Added faster SDL::Color alternative <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=17975">RT</a> </li><li>Added better error reporting for TTFont errors</li><li>Added experimental win32 support RT <b>[Update: v2.2.2.5 is better for windows support]</b><br /></li></ul>You can grab this release off <a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/">CPAN</a>. <br /><br />This is still a stopover to the major release v2.4. Which will hope fully solve the memory leaks problems.<br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>--yapgh</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3262180750381344183?l=yapgh.blogspot.com'/></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>“Do or do not... there is no try.”</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>--yoda </i><br />
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+</div><h1>The design before</h1><br />
+The bindings before were all in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/src/SDL.xs">one huge XS file</a>. This was then exported into the SDL module. This means that the XS file has to handle with macros if any component (e.x SDL_Mixer) is not compiled. Moreover having ever binding in one XS file prevents use to treat C structs as object with only one point of free and malloc. This would be BEGIN and DESTROY in Perl. Also the monolithic design introduces a lot of bugs because we have to use free and malloc all over the place. Lastly SDL monolithic design has the constructor for all structs in both Perl and in XS. <br />
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+<h1>The design we are aiming for</h1>Simple <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/src/Rect.xs">one XS</a> per Module. This would also simplify the Build code.<br />
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+<h2>First Step </h2><br />
+We have began with SDL Rect. It is in github master branch now. We are in the progress of making it back compatible. Originally SDL::Rect took named variables as parameters for new(). Now since the constructor <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/src/Rect.xs#L16">is in XS</a> we have only unnamed parameters. <br />
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+<h3>Before</h3><br />
+SDL::Rect->new( -x => 0, -y => 0, -width => 0, -height => 0);<br />
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+<h3>After</h3><br />
+SDL::Rect->new(0, 0, 0, 0);<br />
+<br />
+Ideally we would like both ways of constructing Rect.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-6151839795039915111?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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