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+<div class="pod">
+<!-- INDEX START -->
+<h3 id="TOP">Index</h3>
+
+<ul><li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li>
+<li><a href="#CATEGORY">CATEGORY</a></li>
+<li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
+<ul><li><a href="#EXAMPLE">EXAMPLE</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE ALSO</a>
+</li>
+</ul><hr />
+<!-- INDEX END -->
+
+<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
+<div id="NAME_CONTENT">
+<p>SDL::Cookbook::OpenGL - Using SDL with OpenGL</p>
+
+</div>
+<h1 id="CATEGORY">CATEGORY</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
+<div id="CATEGORY_CONTENT">
+<p>Cookbook</p>
+
+</div>
+<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
+<div id="DESCRIPTION_CONTENT">
+<p>As of release 2.5 SDL no longer maintains it's own bindings of openGL. Support for openGL has been moved over to a more mature implementation. </p>
+<p>This implementation is the POGL project. <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?OpenGL">OpenGL</a> is faster and more complete; and works with SDL seemlessly.</p>
+
+</div>
+<h2 id="EXAMPLE">EXAMPLE</h2>
+<div id="EXAMPLE_CONTENT">
+<p>Expanded from Floyd-ATC's OpenGL example.</p>
+<pre>
+
+
+ use strict;
+ use warnings;
+ use SDL;
+ use SDLx::App;
+ use SDL::Mouse;
+ use SDL::Video;
+ use SDL::Events;
+ use SDL::Event;
+ use OpenGL qw(:all);
+
+ my ($SDLAPP, $WIDTH, $HEIGHT, $SDLEVENT);
+
+ $| = 1;
+ $WIDTH = 1024;
+ $HEIGHT = 768;
+ $SDLAPP = SDLx::App->new(-title => "Opengl App", -width => $WIDTH, -height => $HEIGHT, -gl => 1);
+ $SDLEVENT = SDL::Event->new;
+
+
+
+
+ glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
+ glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
+ glLoadIdentity;
+ gluPerspective(60, $WIDTH / $HEIGHT, 1, 1000);
+ glTranslatef(0, 0, -20);
+
+
+
+
+ while (1) {
+ &handlepolls;
+ glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
+ glRotatef(.1, 1, 1, 1);
+ &drawscene;
+ $SDLAPP->sync;
+ }
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ sub drawscene {
+ my ($color, $x, $y, $z);
+
+ for (-2 .. 2) {
+ glPushMatrix;
+ glTranslatef($_ * 3, 0, 0);
+ glColor3d(1, 0, 0);
+ &draw_cube;
+ glPopMatrix;
+ }
+
+ return "";
+ }
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ sub draw_cube {
+ my (@indices, @vertices, $face, $vertex, $index, $coords);
+
+ @indices = qw(4 5 6 7 1 2 6 5 0 1 5 4
+ 0 3 2 1 0 4 7 3 2 3 7 6);
+ @vertices = ([-1, -1, -1], [ 1, -1, -1],
+ [ 1, 1, -1], [-1, 1, -1],
+ [-1, -1, 1], [ 1, -1, 1],
+ [ 1, 1, 1], [-1, 1, 1]);
+
+ glBegin(GL_QUADS);
+
+ foreach my $face (0..5) {
+ foreach my $vertex (0..3) {
+ $index = $indices[4 * $face + $vertex];
+ $coords = $vertices[$index];
+
+ glVertex3d(@$coords);
+ }
+ }
+
+ glEnd;
+
+ return "";
+ }
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ sub handlepolls {
+ my ($type, $key);
+
+ SDL::Events::pump_events();
+
+ while (SDL::Events::poll_event($SDLEVENT)) {
+ $type = $SDLEVENT->type();
+ $key = ($type == 2 or $type == 3) ? $SDLEVENT->key_sym : "";
+
+ if ($type == 4) { printf("You moved the mouse! x=%s y=%s xrel=%s yrel=%s\n", $SDLEVENT->motion_x, $SDLEVENT->motion_y, $SDLEVENT->motion_xrel, $SDLEVENT->motion_yrel) }
+ elsif ($type == 2) { print "You are pressing $key\n" }
+ elsif ($type == 3) { print "You released $key\n" }
+ elsif ($type == 12) { exit }
+ else { print "TYPE $type UNKNOWN!\n" }
+
+ if ($type == 2) {
+ if ($key eq "q" or $key eq "escape") { exit }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return "";
+ }
+
+</pre>
+
+</div>
+<h1 id="SEE_ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
+<div id="SEE_ALSO_CONTENT">
+<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?perl">perl</a> <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?SDLx::App">SDLx::App</a> <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?OpenGL">OpenGL</a></p>
+
+</div>
+</div>
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<ul><li><a href="#CATEGORY">CATEGORY</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
-<li><a href="#Perl_s_SDL_in_a_nutshell">Perl's SDL in a nutshell</a></li>
-<li><a href="#SDL_power_through_simplicity">SDL - power through simplicity</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Example_1_Model_of_a_2_D_Noninteract">Example 1: Model of a 2-D Noninteracting Gas</a>
-<ul><li><a href="#Computational_Logic">Computational Logic</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Animation_Logic">Animation Logic</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Disappearing_Particles_Some_of_the_p">Disappearing Particles!
-Some of the particles can drift off the screen. This is no good. What's causing this problem?</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Disappearing_Particles_take_2">Disappearing Particles, take 2</a></li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li><a href="#What_s_in_a_Name_Pesky_conflicts_wit">What's in a Name? Pesky conflicts with main::in()</a>
-<ul><li><a href="#Solution_1_Explicit_scoping_using_pa">Solution 1: Explicit scoping using packages</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Solution_2_Removing_SDL_s_in_or_PDL_">Solution 2: Removing SDL's in or PDL's in from the symbol table</a></li>
-</ul>
+<li><a href="#Creating_a_SDL_Surface_piddle">Creating a SDL Surface piddle</a>
+<ul><li><a href="#Creating_a_simple_piddle">Creating a simple piddle</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Operating_on_the_Surface_safely">Operating on the Surface safely</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Error_due_to_BPP_at_blitting">Error due to BPP at blitting</a>
</li>
-<li><a href="#Making_the_simulation_interactive">Making the simulation interactive</a>
-<ul><li><a href="#Present_state_of_the_code">Present state of the code</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Listening_to_Events">Listening to Events</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Responding_to_events">Responding to events</a></li>
-<li><a href="#Final_State_of_the_Code">Final State of the Code</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
-<li><a href="#Directions_for_future_work">Directions for future work</a>
-</li>
</ul><hr />
<!-- INDEX END -->
<p>Cookbook</p>
</div>
-<h1 id="Perl_s_SDL_in_a_nutshell">Perl's SDL in a nutshell</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="Perl_s_SDL_in_a_nutshell_CONTENT">
-<p>SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. It's a cross-platform library written in C that's meant to handle all of the low-level graphics and sound stuff. You can read more about SDL here: http://www.libsdl.org/. Because SDL is focused on game programming, it has a raw but clean feel to it. We will focus for now on using SDL to handle images for us. Handling sound may some day be the focus of another chapter.</p>
-<p>We will be using Perl's SDL module, not SDL directly. Fortunately, Perl's SDL module has a small collection of very simple tutorials that perfectly introduce basic usage. You can find them here: http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/. Another excellent and very substantial introduction can be found here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/02/games-perl.ars</p>
-<p>SDL is not a Perl core module, so you'll need to install it before moving forward. Before moving on, go through some of the tutorials and play around with SDL a little bit. Continue on once you think you've got the hang of it.</p>
+<h1 id="Creating_a_SDL_Surface_piddle">Creating a SDL Surface piddle</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
+<div id="Creating_a_SDL_Surface_piddle_CONTEN">
+<p>PDL's core type is a piddle. Once a piddle is provided to PDL it can go do a numerous amounts of things. Please see the example in 'examples/cookbook/pdl.pl' that came with this module.</p>
</div>
-<h1 id="SDL_power_through_simplicity">SDL - power through simplicity</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="SDL_power_through_simplicity_CONTENT">
-<p>One of the first questions you're bound to ask when you begin using SDL for your own work is, "How do I draw a line?" As it turns out, you don't! SDL's pixmap capabilities are just that - pixmap capabilities. If you want to draw a line, you'll have to do it manually.</p>
-<p>For example, here is a very poorly implemented hack (read - don't do this at home) that will draw a simple sine-wave graph:</p>
-<pre> #!/usr/bin/perl
- use warnings;
- use strict;
-
- use SDL;
- use SDL::App;
- use SDL::Rect;
- use SDL::Color;
- use SDL::Video;
-
- # User defined pen-nib size.
- my $nib_size = 3;
-
- # Create the SDL App
- my $app = SDL::App->new(
- -width => 640,
- -height => 480,
- -depth => 16,
- -title => "Hello, World!",
- );
-
- # our nib will be white
- my $nib_color = SDL::Color->new(
- 0xff, #r
- 0xff, #b
- 0xff, #g
- );
-
- # and our nib will be represented by a rectangle
- # (Alternatively, you could use an image, which would allow
- # for pretty anti-aliasing if you created it in GIMP with
- # antialiasing)
- my $nib = SDL::Rect->new(
- 0 , 0, #x, y
- $nib_size, #w
- $nib_size, #h
- );
-
- # now draw a sine wave (wthout covering up previously drawn rectangles)
- my $t = 0;
- my $t_step = 2**-4;
- for($t = 0; $t < 50; $t += $t_step) {
- $nib->x( $t * 8 );
- $nib->y( sin($t) * 80 + 240 );
-
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $nib, $nib_color );
- }
-
- # Generally use the update command, but if you want to update the whole
- # surface, use flip
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app,)
-
- sleep 5;
+<h2 id="Creating_a_simple_piddle">Creating a simple piddle</h2>
+<div id="Creating_a_simple_piddle_CONTENT">
+<p>First lets get the right modules.</p>
+<pre> use PDL;
+ use SDL::Rect;
+ use SDL::Video;
+ use SDL::Surface;
+ use SDL::PixelFormat;
</pre>
-<p>Wait a second, you say, this doesn't seem either powerful or simple! You're right, but that's not because SDL is a poor tool. Rather, this example targets SDL's weaknesses rather than its strenghts.</p>
-<p>If you need to make a plot, use PLplot or PGPLOT. If you need to make something move, use SDL.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="Example_1_Model_of_a_2_D_Noninteract">Example 1: Model of a 2-D Noninteracting Gas</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="Example_1_Model_of_a_2_D_Noninteract-2">
-<p>In this section we'll develop a fully working animation/simulation. We'll start with something quite simple for now and expand it as we go along. The goal of this example is for it to work, not to be well-designed. For a discussion of making your simulations well-designed, read below.</p>
-<p>We will separate our program into two parts: the computational logic and the animation logic. Here's the introduction and the computational part:</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Computational_Logic">Computational Logic</h2>
-<div id="Computational_Logic_CONTENT">
-<pre>
-
-
- #!/usr/bin/perl
- # A simple simulation
- use warnings;
- use strict;
- use PDL;
-
- # Set up the system parameters, including random positions and velocities.
- my $d_t = 2**-3;
- my $side_length = 200;
- my $numb_of_atoms = 100;
- my $positions = random(2, $numb_of_atoms) * $side_length;
- my $velocities = random(2, $numb_of_atoms) * 6;
-
- sub compute {
- $positions += $d_t * $velocities;
- }
+<p>Suppose you want a surface of size (200,400) and 32 bit (RGBA).</p>
+<pre> my ( $bytes_per_pixel, $width, $height ) = ( 4, 200, 400 );
</pre>
-<p>If you've ever written a simulation, you'll probably object that we don't have any iteration over time. You're right, but it turns out that the timing works much better in SDL's event loop than in our computational logic. The purpose of the computational logic is to let us focus on encoding our systems dynamics without having to worry about the application logic. In this case, the computational logic simply updates the positions of the particles according to their velocities.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Animation_Logic">Animation Logic</h2>
-<div id="Animation_Logic_CONTENT">
-<p>We next need to figure out how the application is actually going to run and display anything. We'll do this in two stages, the application intialization and the run loop.</p>
-<p>Here's some initialization code to get started; put this below the code already supplied above:</p>
-<pre> use SDL;
- use SDL::App;
- use SDL::Rect;
- use SDL::Color;
- use SDL::Video;
-
- # Create the SDL App
- my $app = SDL::App->new( -width => $side_length, -height => $side_length,
- -title => "Simple Simulation!", -depth => 16, );
-
- # white particles on a black background
- my $particle_color = SDL::Color->new( 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, );
- my $bg_color = SDL::Color->new( 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 );
-
- # rectangles for the particles and the background
- my $particle = SDL::Rect->new( 0,0, 5, 5);
- my $bg = SDL::Rect->new( 0,0,$side_length, $side_length, );
+<p>Define the $width, $height and $bytes_per_pixel. Your $bytes_per_pixel is the number of bits (in this case 32) divided by 8 bits per byte. Therefore for our 32 bpp we have 4 Bpp;</p>
+<pre> my $piddle = zeros( byte, $bytes_per_pixel, $width, $height );
</pre>
-<p>Hopefully this is straightforward code. We pull in our library dependencies and then create a few objects with the necessary properties. Finally, we get to the actual application loop:</p>
-<pre> # Run the simulation by (1) computing the updated positions, clearing the canvas, drawing the
- # new particles, updating the visual display, and pausing before continuing:
- for(my $t = 0; $t < 20; $t += $d_t) {
- compute();
-
- # Clean the canvas
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $bg, $bg_color);
- for(my $i = 0; $i < $numb_of_atoms; $i++) {
- $particle->x( $positions->at(0,$i) );
- $particle->y( $positions->at(1,$i) );
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $particle, $particle_color );
- }
- SDL::Video::flip($app);
- $app->delay(10);
- }
-
-</pre>
-<p>When you run this code (combined with the code already supplied), you should get a bunch of particles slowly drifting down and to the right. Not all that interesting, but then again, we have a simulation up and working! Cool!.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Disappearing_Particles_Some_of_the_p">Disappearing Particles!
-Some of the particles can drift off the screen. This is no good. What's causing this problem?</h2>
-<div id="Disappearing_Particles_Some_of_the_p-2">
-<p>The root of the problem is that our computational code is, well, rather dumb, it doesn't check to see if the particle is about to go off the screen. So, we need to update our computational code to look like this:</p>
-<pre> sub compute {
- $positions += $d_t * $velocities;
-
- # Find all particles that are 'outside' the box, place them back in
- # box, and reverse their directions
- my ($bad_pos, $bad_vel)
- = where($positions, $velocities, $positions > $side_length);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos .= 2 * $side_length - $bad_pos;
- }
+<p>Create a normal $piddle with zeros, byte format and the Bpp x width x height dimensions.</p>
+<pre> my $pointer = $piddle->get_dataref();
</pre>
-<p>With this change to the code, you should get particles that 'bounce' when the reach the far edge. This is far from satisfactory, however, because the compute code is adjusting the particle's ''left'' edge, not its center, so the particles nearly go off the screen before they bounce. To fix this, we work with an effective side length instead:</p>
-<pre> my $effective_length = $side_length - 5;
- sub compute {
- $positions += $d_t * $velocities;
-
- # Find all particles that are 'outside' the box and push them back in the
- # opposite direction, reversing their directions, too.
- my ($bad_pos, $bad_vel)
- = where($positions, $velocities, $positions > $effective_length);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos .= 2 * $effective_length - $bad_pos;
- }
+<p>Here is where we get the acutal data the piddle is pointing to. We will have SDL create a new surface from this function.</p>
+<pre> my $surface = SDL::Surface->new_from( $pointer, $width, $height, 32,
+ $width * $bytes_per_pixel );
</pre>
-<p>So far I've been carrying that explicit constant of 5 to represent the size of the particles. We should put that in a variable somewhere so that it's a bitcode> and put it near the top. Also, the velocities are rather silly - we don't have any negative velocities. Let's try using <code>grandom</code> instead. Now your variable initialization code should look something like this:</p>
-<pre> # Set up the system parameters, including random positions and velocities.
- my $d_t = 2**-3;
- my $side_length = 200;
- my $particle_size = 5;
- my $numb_of_atoms = 100;
- my $positions = random(2, $numb_of_atoms) * $side_length;
- my $velocities = grandom(2, $numb_of_atoms) * 5;
+<p>Using the same dimensions we create the surface using new_form. The width * Bpp is the scanline (pitch) of the surface in bytes.</p>
+<pre> warn "Made surface of $width, $height and ". $surface->format->BytesPerPixel;
+ return ( $piddle, $surface );
</pre>
+<p>Finally make sure that the surface acutally has the correct dimensions we gave.</p>
+<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> $surface->format->BytesPerPixel must return 1,2,3,4. !!</p>
+<p>Now you can blit and use the surface as needed; and do PDL operations as required.</p>
-</div>
-<h2 id="Disappearing_Particles_take_2">Disappearing Particles, take 2</h2>
-<div id="Disappearing_Particles_take_2_CONTEN">
-<p>Unless you experience an unusual circumstance, all of the particles will quickly shrivel up and disappear! What's going on? It turns out we have a problem with our computational logic again, but we are also running into strange behavior from SDL. We'll take a look at SDL's weird behavior first.</p>
-<p>Clearly the particle rectangle's size is not supposed to change, but somehow it does. To confince yourself of this, modify the <code>for</code> loop in the application loop so it looks more like this, which explicitly sets the particle size for every particle that's drawn:</p>
-<pre> for(my $i = 0; $i < $numb_of_atoms; $i++) {
- $particle->x( $positions->at(0,$i) );
- $particle->y( $positions->at(1,$i) );
- $particle->h( $particle_size );
- $particle->w( $particle_size );
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $particle, $particle_color );
- }
-
-</pre>
-<p>Now it's clear that although we still have particles flying off the screen up and to the left, they are no longer shriveling away. This strange behavior is due to SDL's response to a negative position for a rectangle - it just resizes the rectangle so that it only the portion of the rectangle that's in positive territory remains. The upshot is that you must always be careful about how you handle drawing positons.</p>
-<p>Now that the particles are no longer disappearing, it's clear that we forgot to set up a physical boundary condition for our particles on the uppper and left edges. To fix that, we modify the compute function:</p>
-<pre> sub compute {
- $positions += $d_t * $velocities;
- # Find all particles that are 'outside' the box and push them back in the
- # opposite direction, reversing their directions, too.
- my ($bad_pos, $bad_vel)
- = where($positions, $velocities, $positions > $effective_length);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos .= 2 * $effective_length - $bad_pos;
- ($bad_pos, $bad_vel) = where($positions, $velocities, $positions < 0);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos *= -1;
- }
-</pre>
-<p>You can also remove the explicit particle-sizing that we put in before, because it's no longer a problem.</p>
-<p>And there you have it! We have a fully fledged simulation of noninteracting particles in a box!</p>
</div>
-<h1 id="What_s_in_a_Name_Pesky_conflicts_wit">What's in a Name? Pesky conflicts with main::in()</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="What_s_in_a_Name_Pesky_conflicts_wit-2">
-<p>If you've been running your simulations along with the demo, you'll almost certainly have noticed an error looking something like this:</p>
-<pre> Prototype mismatch: sub main::in (;@) vs none at ./sdlsandbox.pl line 36
+<h2 id="Operating_on_the_Surface_safely">Operating on the Surface safely</h2>
+<div id="Operating_on_the_Surface_safely_CONT">
+<p>To make sure SDL is in sync with the data. You must call SDL::Video::lock <strong>before</strong> doing PDL operations on the piddle.</p>
+<pre> SDL::Video::lock_surface($surface);
-</pre>
-<p>This is the unfortunate consequence of both SDL and PDL exporting their <code>in</code> function to their enclosing namespace. The standard solution to this is to have modify one of your <code>use</code> lines so it looks like </p>
-<pre> use PDL qw( !in );
+ $piddle ( :, 0 : rand(400), 0 : rand(200) ) .= pdl( rand(225), rand(225), rand(255), 255 );
</pre>
-<p>Unfortunately, PDL doesn't listen you what you say when it imports functions into the namespace. As far as I can tell, neither does SDL. The best way to fix this problem is to encapsulate one of the two pieces of code into its own package. We'll do that with the MyComputation package.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Solution_1_Explicit_scoping_using_pa">Solution 1: Explicit scoping using packages</h2>
-<div id="Solution_1_Explicit_scoping_using_pa-2">
-<p>Tweak your code a bit so that you call <code>use PDL;</code> within the MyCompute package, and place all of the piddles within that package space:</p>
-<pre> package MyCompute;
- use PDL;
- my $positions = random(2, $numb_of_atoms) * $side_length;
-
- # ... and later
- package main;
- use SDL;
-
- # ... and later, tweak the application loop
- for(my $t = 0; $t < 20; $t += $d_t) {
- MyCompute::compute();
+<p>After that you can unlock the surface to blit.</p>
+<pre> SDL::Video::unlock_surface($surface);
</pre>
-<p>And now everything should run fine, without any more warnings!</p>
</div>
-<h2 id="Solution_2_Removing_SDL_s_in_or_PDL_">Solution 2: Removing SDL's in or PDL's in from the symbol table</h2>
-<div id="Solution_2_Removing_SDL_s_in_or_PDL_-2">
-<p>Sometimes you have to mix your animation code with computational code, in which case the above solution doesn't solve your problem. If you find that you don't need to use one of PDL's or SDL's <code>in</code> function in your own code, go ahead and remove it from the main symbol table. You can always get back to it later by fully qualifying the function call. To remove SDL's <code>in</code> function, use code like this:</p>
-<pre> # use SDL, but remove SDL's in function before loading PDL
- use SDL;
- BEGIN {
- delete $main::{in};
- }
- use PDL;
+<h2 id="Error_due_to_BPP_at_blitting">Error due to BPP at blitting</h2>
+<div id="Error_due_to_BPP_at_blitting_CONTENT">
+<p>When blitting the new surface check for the return value to see if there has been a problem.</p>
+<pre> my $b = SDL::Video::blit_surface(
+ $surface, SDL::Rect->new( 0, 0, $surface->w, $surface->h ),
+ $app, SDL::Rect->new( ( $app->w - $surface->w ) / 2, ( $app->h - $surface->h ) / 2, $app->w, $app->h )
+ );
-</pre>
-<p>If you would rather have SDL's <code>in</code> function in your main symbol table, reverse the placement of <code>use SD<a href="#code">code</a> and <code>use PD<a href="#code">code</a> in the previous example:</p>
-<pre> # use PDL, but remove its 'in' function before loading SDL
- use PDL;
- BEGIN {
- delete $main::{in};
- }
- use SDL;
+ die "Could not blit: " . SDL::get_error() if ( $b == -1 );
</pre>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="Making_the_simulation_interactive">Making the simulation interactive</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="Making_the_simulation_interactive_CO">
-<p>As the closing portion of this chapter, we'll consider how to make the simulation interactive. SDL captures keyboard and mouse behavior, so putting this into our simulator is straightforward.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Present_state_of_the_code">Present state of the code</h2>
-<div id="Present_state_of_the_code_CONTENT">
-<p>Before moving into getting user interaction, I first want to be sure we're working with the same code. In particular, I've made a couple of important modifications so that this code is slightly different from what we were working with above. I'll point out those differences as we come to them. Here's the program as it stands, from top to bottom:</p>
-<pre> #!/usr/bin/perl
- # A simple simulation
- use warnings;
- use strict;
-
- ## Global Variables ##
-
- # Set up the system parameters, including random positions and velocities.
- my $d_t = 2**-3;
- my $side_length = 200;
- my $particle_size = 5;
- my $numb_of_atoms = 100;
-
- ## Computational Stuff ##
-
- package MyCompute;
- use PDL;
- my $positions = random(2, $numb_of_atoms) * $side_length;
- my $velocities = grandom(2, $numb_of_atoms) * 6;
- my $effective_length;
-
- sub compute {
- my $effective_length = $side_length - $particle_size;
-
- # update the a real simulation, this is the interesting part
- $positions += $d_t * $velocities;
-
- # Check boundary conditions. Find all particles that are 'outside' the box,
- # place them back in the box, and reverse their directions
- my ($bad_pos, $bad_vel)
- = where($positions, $velocities, $positions > $effective_length);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos .= 2 * $effective_length - $bad_pos;
-
- ($bad_pos, $bad_vel) = where($positions, $velocities, $positions < 0);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos *= -1;
- }
-
-
-
-
- ## Animation Code ##
-
- package main;
-
- use SDL;
- use SDL::App;
- use SDL::Rect;
- use SDL::Color;
- use SDL::Video;
-
- # Create the SDL App
- my $app = SDL::App->new( -width => $side_length, -height => $side_length,
- -title => "Simple Simulation!", -depth => 16, );
-
- # white particles on a black background
- my $particle_color = SDL::Color->new( 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, );
- my $bg_color = SDL::Color->new( 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 );
-
- # rectangles for the particles and the background
- my $particle = SDL::Rect->new( 0,0, 5, 5);
- my $bg = SDL::Rect->new( 0,0,$side_length, $side_length, );
-
- # Run the simulation
- for(my $t = 0; $t < 20; $t += $d_t) {
- MyCompute::compute();
-
- # Clean the canvas
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $bg, $bg_color);
- for(my $i = 0; $i < $numb_of_atoms; $i++) {
- $particle->x( $positions->at(0,$i) );
- $particle->y( $positions->at(1,$i) );
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $particle, $particle_color );
- }
- SDL::Video::flip($app);
- $app->delay(10);
- }
-
-</pre>
-<p>So there it is, top to bottom, in about 75 lines.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Listening_to_Events">Listening to Events</h2>
-<div id="Listening_to_Events_CONTENT">
-<p>To respond to user interactions, we have to listen to user events using an SDL::Event object. So first, add this line with our other use statements:</p>
-<pre> use SDL::Event;
- use SDL::Events;
-
-</pre>
-<p>and then be sure to create an event object amongst the animation initialization code:</p>
-<pre> my $event = SDL::Event->new;
-
-</pre>
-<p>Finally, we need to update the application loop so that it examines and responds to events. Replace the current application loop with this code:</p>
-<pre> # Run the simulation
- while(1) {
- MyCompute::compute();
-
- # Clean the canvas
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $bg, $bg_color);
- for(my $i = 0; $i < $numb_of_atoms; $i++) {
- $particle->x( $positions->at(0,$i) );
- $particle->y( $positions->at(1,$i) );
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $particle, $particle_col10);
-
- while(SDL::Events::poll_event($event) ) {
- if($event->type() == SDL_QUIT) {
- exit;
- }
- }
- }
-
-</pre>
-<p>Now the animator will run indefinitely, until you explicitly tell it to close. (You may have noticed before that the application would not close even if you told it to close. Now we've fixed that.)</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Responding_to_events">Responding to events</h2>
-<div id="Responding_to_events_CONTENT">
-<p>When SDL gets a mouse response or a keyboard key press, it tells you with an event. The naive way to process these event is with a series of if statements. Don't do that.</p>
-<p>Instead, create a dispatch table, which is nothing more than a hash whose values are the subroutines you want to have run when an event happens. Replace the application loop with the following code:</p>
-<pre> # event dispatch table
- my $keyname_dispatch_table = {
- 'up' => \&incr_particle_size, # up key makes particles larger
- 'down' => \&decr_particle_size, # down key makes particles smaller
- 'space' => sub { $d_t = -$d_t }, # space-bar reverses time
- '.' => sub { $d_t *= 1.1 }, # right-angle-bracket fast-forwards
- ',' => sub { $d_t /= 1.1 }, # left-angle-bracket slows down
- 'q' => sub { exit; }, # q exits
- };
-
- sub incr_particle_size {
- $particle_size++;
- $particle->h($particle_size);
- $particle->w($particle_size);
- }
-
- sub decr_particle_size {
- $particle_size-- if $particle_size > 1;
- $particle->h($particle_size);
- $particle->w($particle_size);
- }
-
-
-
-
- # Run the simulation
- while(1) {
- MyCompute::compute();
-
- # Clean the canvas
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $bg, $bg_color);
- for(my $i = 0; $i < $numb_of_atoms; $i++) {
- $particle->x( $positions->at(0,$i) );
- $particle->y( $positions->at(1,$i) );
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $particle, $particle_color );
- }
- SDL::Video::flip($app);
- $app->delay(10);
-
- while(SDL::Events::poll_event($event) ) {
- if($event->type() == SDL_QUIT) {
- exit;
- } elsif($event->type() == SDL_QUIT) {
- if(exists $keyname_dispatch_table->{$event->keysym_name()}) {
- $keyname_dispatch_table->{$event->keysym_name()}->();
- }
- }
- }
- }
-
-</pre>
-<p>Dispatch tables allow for powerful methods of abstracting your program logic. Now adding a new event handler is as easy as updating the dispatch table!</p>
-<p>As written, you can now increase or decrease the particle size using the up and down arrow keys, you can increase ory using the right or left angle-brackets, you can reverse time using the space bar, or you can quit by pressing q.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h2 id="Final_State_of_the_Code">Final State of the Code</h2>
-<div id="Final_State_of_the_Code_CONTENT">
-<p>Just so that you've got a complete working example, here is the final state of the code, clocking in at a mere 115 lines:</p>
-<pre> #!/usr/bin/perl
- # A simple simulation
- use warnings;
- use strict;
-
- ## Global Variables ##
-
- # Set up the system parameters, including random positions and velocities.
- my $d_t = 2**-3;
- my $side_length = 200;
- my $particle_size = 5;
- my $numb_of_atoms = 100;
-
- ## Computational Stuff ##
-
- package MyCompute;
- use PDL;
- my $positions = random(2, $numb_of_atoms) * $side_length;
- my $velocities = grandom(2, $numb_of_atoms) * 6;
- my $effective_length;
-
- sub compute {
- my $effective_length = $side_length - $particle_size;
-
- # update the positions. For a real simulation, this is the interesting part
- $positions += $d_t * $velocities;
-
- # Check boundary conditions. Find all particles that are 'outside' the box,
- # place them back in the box, and reverse their directions
- my ($bad_pos, $bad_vel)
- = where($positions, $velocities, $positions > $effective_length);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos .= 2 * $effective_length - $bad_pos;
-
- ($bad_pos, $bad_vel) = where($positions, $velocities, $positions < 0);
- $bad_vel *= -1;
- $bad_pos *= -1;
- }
-
-
-
-
- ## Animation Code ##
-
- package main;
-
- use SDL;
- use SDL::App;
- use SDL::Rect;
- use SDL::Color;
- use SDL::Video;
- use SDL::Event;
- use SDL::Events;
-
- # Create the SDL App
- my $app = SDL::App->new( -width => $side_length, -height => $side_length,
- -title => "Simple Simulation!", -depth => 16, );
-
- # white particles on a black background
- my $particle_color = SDL::Color->new( 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, );
- my $bg_color = SDL::Color->new( 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 );
-
- # rectangles for the particles and the background
- my $particle = SDL::Rect->new( 0,0, 5, 5);
- my $bg = SDL::Rect->new( 0,0,$side_length, $side_length, );
-
- # event listener
- my $event = SDL::Event->new();
-
- # event dispatch table
- my $keyname_dispatch_table = {
- 'up' => \&incr_particle_size, # up key makes particles large
- 'down' => \&decr_particle_size, # up key makes particles large
- 'space' => sub { $d_t = -$d_t },
- '.' => sub { $d_t *= 1.1 }, # right-arrow fast-forwards
- ',' => sub { $d_t /= 1.1 }, # left-arrow slows down
- 'q' => sub { exit; }, # q exits
- };
-
- sub incr_particle_size {
- $particle_size++;
- $particle->h($particle_size);
- $particle->w($particle_size);
- }
-
- sub decr_particle_size {
- $particle_size-- if $particle_size > 1;
- $particle->h($particle_size);
- $particle->w($particle_size);
- }
-
-
-
-
- # Run the simulation
- while(1) {
- MyCompute::compute();
-
- # Clean the canvas
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $bg, $bg_color);
- for(my $i = 0; $i < $numb_of_atoms; $i++) {
- $particle->x( $positions->at(0,$i) );
- $particle->y( $positions->at(1,$i) );
- SDL::Video::fill_rect($app, $particle, $particle_color );
- }
- SDL::Video::flip($app);
- $app->delay(10);
-
- while(SDL::Events::poll_event($event) ) {
- if($event->type() == SDL_QUIT) {
- exit;
- } elsif($event->type() == SDL_QUIT) {
- if(exists $keyname_dispatch_table->{$event->keysym_name()}) {
- $keyname_dispatch_table->{$event->keysym_name()}->();
- }
- }
- }
- }
-
-</pre>
-<p>Next, if you want to model interactions among particles, you could write code in the compute function to handle that for you. If you wanted to use little balls instead of the boxes we've used here, you could create your own images and use an SDL::Surface to load the image. You can't resize an image using SDL, but then you'd probably be working with real interactions anyway, like a Coulomb force, in which case you'd really be adjusting the interaction strength, not the particle size.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="Directions_for_future_work">Directions for future work</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="Directions_for_future_work_CONTENT">
-<p>I have a couple of ideas for future work combining PDL and SDL.</p>
-<dl>
- <dt>PLplot driver thingy that creates plots that can be blitted onto an app. This way, having a graph plotting along side your simulation would be straightforward.
-=item Write a function to convert SDL::Surface to a collection of rgba piddles. We might even be able to convince the piddle to work directly with the memory allocated for the SDL::Survace object for super-fast PDL-based image manipulations. As an added bonus, you'd be able to slice and dice!</dt>
-</dl>
+<p>If the error message is 'Blit combination not supported' that means that the BPP is incorrect or incosistent with the dimensions.
+After that a simple update_rect will so your new surface on the screen.</p>
</div>
</div>
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<ul><li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a>
<ul><li><a href="#CATEGORY">CATEGORY</a></li>
-<li><a href="#First_Steps">First Steps</a>
+<li><a href="#First_Steps">First Steps</a></li>
+<li><a href="#PDL_with_SDL">PDL with SDL</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</div>
<h2 id="First_Steps">First Steps</h2>
<div id="First_Steps_CONTENT">
-<p>see <a href="SDL-Tutorial.html">SDL::Tutorial</a>
+<p>see <a href="SDL-Tutorial.html">SDL::Tutorial</a></p>
+
+</div>
+<h2 id="PDL_with_SDL">PDL with SDL</h2>
+<div id="PDL_with_SDL_CONTENT">
+<p>Attaching a PDL piddle object to SDL. <a href="SDL-Cookbook-PDL.html">SDL::Cookbook::PDL</a>
</p>
</div>
<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
<div id="DESCRIPTION_CONTENT">
<p>All functions take an SDL::Surface object as first parameter. This can be a new surface that will be blittet afterwads, can be an surface
-obtained by <a href="/SDL-Video.html#set_video_mode">SDL::Video::set_video_mode</a> or can be an <a href="SDL-App.html">SDL::App</a>.</p>
+obtained by <a href="/SDL-Video.html#set_video_mode">SDL::Video::set_video_mode</a> or can be an <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?SDLx::App">SDLx::App</a>.</p>
<p>The <code>color</code> values for the <code>_color</code> functions are <code>0xRRGGBBAA</code> (32bit), even if the surface uses e. g. 8bit colors.</p>
</div>
+++ /dev/null
-<div class="pod">
-<!-- INDEX START -->
-<h3 id="TOP">Index</h3>
-
-<ul><li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li>
-<li><a href="#CATEGORY">CATEGORY</a></li>
-<li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
-<li><a href="#CAVEATS">CAVEATS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></li>
-<li><a href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE ALSO</a>
-</li>
-</ul><hr />
-<!-- INDEX END -->
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="NAME_CONTENT">
-<p>SDL::OpenGL - a perl extension</p>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="CATEGORY">CATEGORY</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="CATEGORY_CONTENT">
-<p>TODO</p>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="DESCRIPTION_CONTENT">
-<p><a href="SDL-OpenGL.html">SDL::OpenGL</a> is a perl module which when used by your application
-exports the gl* and glu* functions into your application's primary namespace.
-Most of the functions described in the OpenGL 1.3 specification are currently
-supported in this fashion. As the implementation of the OpenGL bindings that
-comes with SDL_perl is largely type agnositic, there is no need to decline
-the function names in the fashion that is done in the C API. For example,
-glVertex3d is simply glVertex, and perl just does the right thing with regards
-to types.</p>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="CAVEATS">CAVEATS</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="CAVEATS_CONTENT">
-<p>The following methods work different in Perl than in C:</p>
-<dl>
- <dt>glCallLists</dt>
- <dd>
-<pre> glCallLists(@array_of_numbers);
-
-</pre>
- <p>Unlike the C function, which get's passed a count, a type and a list of
-numbers, the Perl equivalent only takes a list of numbers.</p>
- <p>Note that this is slow, since it needs to allocate memory and construct a
-list of numbers from the given scalars. For a faster version see
-<a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?glCallListsString">glCallListsString</a>.</p>
- </dd>
-</dl>
-<p>The following methods exist in addition to the normal OpenGL specification:</p>
-<dl>
- <dt>glCallListsString</dt>
- <dd>
-<pre> glCallListsString($string);
-
-</pre>
- <p>Works like <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?glCallLists()">glCallLists()</a>, except that it needs only one parameter, a scalar
-holding a string. The string is interpreted as a set of bytes, and each of
-these will be passed to glCallLists as GL_BYTE. This is faster than
-glCallLists, so you might want to pack your data like this:</p>
-<pre> my $lists = pack("C", @array_of_numbers);
-
-</pre>
- <p>And later use it like this:</p>
-<pre> glCallListsString($lists);
-
-</pre>
- </dd>
-</dl>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="AUTHOR_CONTENT">
-<p>David J. Goehrig</p>
-
-</div>
-<h1 id="SEE_ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
-<div id="SEE_ALSO_CONTENT">
-<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?perl">perl</a> <a href="SDL-App.html">SDL::App</a></p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
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<div id="Redrawing_the_Screen_CONTENT">
<p>Since you have to draw the screen in the right order once to start with it's
pretty easy to make this into a loop and redraw things in the right order for
-every frame. Given a <a href="SDL-App.html">SDL::App</a> object <code>$app</code>, a <a href="SDL-Rect.html">SDL::Rect</a> <code>$rect</code>, and
+every frame. Given a <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?SDLx::App">SDLx::App</a> object <code>$app</code>, a <a href="SDL-Rect.html">SDL::Rect</a> <code>$rect</code>, and
a <a href="SDL-Color.html">SDL::Color</a> <code>$color</code>, you only have to create a new SDL::Rect <code>$bg</code>,
representing the whole of the background surface and a new SDL::Color
<code>$bg_color</code>, representing the background color. You can write a
use SDL; #needed to get all constants
use SDL::Video;
- use SDL::App;
+ use SDLx::App;
use SDL::Surface;
use SDL::Rect;
use SDL::Image;
</pre>
-<p>Second step: initialize <code>SDL::App</code>:</p>
+<p>Second step: initialize <code>SDLx::App</code>:</p>
<pre>
- my $app = SDL::App->new(
+ my $app = SDLx::App->new(
-title => "Lunar Lander",
-width => 800,
-height => 600,
<h2 id="Surfaces">Surfaces</h2>
<div id="Surfaces_CONTENT">
<p>All graphics in SDL live on a surface. You'll need at least one. That's what
-<a href="SDL-App.html">SDL::App</a> provides.</p>
+<a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?SDLx::App">SDLx::App</a> provides.</p>
<p>Of course, before you can get a surface, you need to initialize your video
mode. SDL gives you several options, including whether to run in a window or
take over the full screen, the size of the window, the bit depth of your
</div>
<h2 id="Initialization">Initialization</h2>
<div id="Initialization_CONTENT">
-<p>SDL::App makes it easy to initialize video and create a surface. Here's how to
+<p>SDLx::App makes it easy to initialize video and create a surface. Here's how to
ask for a windowed surface with 640x480x16 resolution:</p>
-<pre> use SDL::App;
+<pre> use SDLx::App;
- my $app = SDL::App->new(
+ my $app = SDLx::App->new(
-width => 640,
-height => 480,
-depth => 16,
<p>You can get more creative, especially if you use the <code>-title</code> and <code>-icon</code>
attributes in a windowed application. Here's how to set the window title of
the application to <code>My SDL Program</code>:</p>
-<pre> use SDL::App;
+<pre> use SDLx::App;
- my $app = SDL::App->new(
+ my $app = SDLx::App->new(
-height => 640,
-width => 480,
-depth => 16,
<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
<div id="NAME_CONTENT">
-<p>SDL::App - a SDL perl extension</p>
+<p>SDLx::App - a SDL perl extension</p>
</div>
<h1 id="CATEGORY">CATEGORY</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
<h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
<div id="SYNOPSIS_CONTENT">
<pre> use SDL;
- use SDL::App;
+ use SDLx::App;
use SDL::Event;
use SDL::Events;
- my $app = SDL::App->new(
+ my $app = SDLx::App->new(
-title => 'Application Title',
-width => 640,
-height => 480,
}
</pre>
-<p>An alternative to the manual Event processing is the <a href="/SDL-App.html#loop">SDL::App::loop</a> .</p>
+<p>An alternative to the manual Event processing is the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?SDLx::App::loop">SDLx::App::loop</a> .</p>
</div>
<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
<div id="DESCRIPTION_CONTENT">
-<p><a href="SDL-App.html">SDL::App</a> controls the root window of the of your SDL based application.
+<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?SDLx::App">SDLx::App</a> controls the root window of the of your SDL based application.
It extends the <a href="SDL-Surface.html">SDL::Surface</a> class, and provides an interface to the window
manager oriented functions.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="new">new</h2>
<div id="new_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::new</code> initializes the SDL, creates a new screen,
+<p><code>SDLx::App::new</code> initializes the SDL, creates a new screen,
and initializes some of the window manager properties.
-<code>SDL::App::new</code> takes a series of named parameters:</p>
+<code>SDLx::App::new</code> takes a series of named parameters:</p>
<ul>
<li>-title </li>
<li>-icon_title </li>
</div>
<h2 id="title">title</h2>
<div id="title_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::title</code> takes 0, 1, or 2 arguments. It returns the current
+<p><code>SDLx::App::title</code> takes 0, 1, or 2 arguments. It returns the current
application window title. If one parameter is passed, both the window
title and icon title will be set to its value. If two parameters are
passed the window title will be set to the first, and the icon title
</div>
<h2 id="delay">delay</h2>
<div id="delay_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::delay</code> takes 1 argument, and will sleep the application for
+<p><code>SDLx::App::delay</code> takes 1 argument, and will sleep the application for
that many ms.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="ticks">ticks</h2>
<div id="ticks_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::ticks</code> returns the number of ms since the application began.</p>
+<p><code>SDLx::App::ticks</code> returns the number of ms since the application began.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="error">error</h2>
<div id="error_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::error</code> returns the last error message set by the SDL.</p>
+<p><code>SDLx::App::error</code> returns the last error message set by the SDL.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="resize">resize</h2>
<div id="resize_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::resize</code> takes a new height and width of the application
+<p><code>SDLx::App::resize</code> takes a new height and width of the application
if the application was originally created with the -resizable option.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="fullscreen">fullscreen</h2>
<div id="fullscreen_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::fullscreen</code> toggles the application in and out of fullscreen mode.</p>
+<p><code>SDLx::App::fullscreen</code> toggles the application in and out of fullscreen mode.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="iconify">iconify</h2>
<div id="iconify_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::iconify</code> iconifies the applicaiton window.</p>
+<p><code>SDLx::App::iconify</code> iconifies the applicaiton window.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="grab_input">grab_input</h2>
<div id="grab_input_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::grab_input</code> can be used to change the input focus behavior of
+<p><code>SDLx::App::grab_input</code> can be used to change the input focus behavior of
the application. It takes one argument, which should be one of the following:</p>
<dl>
<dt>*
</div>
<h2 id="loop">loop</h2>
<div id="loop_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::loop</code> is a simple event loop method which takes a reference to a hash
+<p><code>SDLx::App::loop</code> is a simple event loop method which takes a reference to a hash
of event handler subroutines. The keys of the hash must be SDL event types such
as SDL_QUIT(), SDL_KEYDOWN(), and the like. The event method recieves as its parameter
the event object used in the loop.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
-<pre> my $app = SDL::App->new(
+<pre> my $app = SDLx::App->new(
-title => "test.app",
-width => 800,
-height => 600,
</div>
<h2 id="sync">sync</h2>
<div id="sync_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::sync</code> encapsulates the various methods of syncronizing the screen with the
-current video buffer. <code>SDL::App::sync</code> will do a fullscreen update, using the double buffer
+<p><code>SDLx::App::sync</code> encapsulates the various methods of syncronizing the screen with the
+current video buffer. <code>SDLx::App::sync</code> will do a fullscreen update, using the double buffer
or OpenGL buffer if applicable. This is prefered to calling flip on the application window.</p>
</div>
<h2 id="attribute_attr_value">attribute ( attr, [value] )</h2>
<div id="attribute_attr_value_CONTENT">
-<p><code>SDL::App::attribute</code> allows one to set and get GL attributes. By passing a value
+<p><code>SDLx::App::attribute</code> allows one to set and get GL attributes. By passing a value
in addition to the attribute selector, the value will be set. <code>SDL:::App::attribute</code>
always returns the current value of the given attribute, or croaks on failure.</p>
<div class="blog"><h1>Articles</h1>
-<div><a href="blog-0001.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Eye Candy</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 24 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl EyeCandy]</a><br /> <br /> clang <br />With each imperfect hit <br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0008.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0009.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">Updates, Falling Block Game, and Hack Fest</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> Silent but active,<br />Small but deadly. <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Thanks nothingmuch, and updates</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 18 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Tutorial.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Tutorial]</a><br /> struggle, <br /> live, <br /> cease, <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">Design of SDL::Rect</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 12 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />you say things,<br />I hear,<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /></div>
+<div><a href="blog-0001.html">SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 29 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-PDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[PDL]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />responsive animations and simulations.<br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 14 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Packaging.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Packaging]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br />After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of SDLpp.pl . The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />Here is the shooter.pl packaged up:<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0008.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0009.html">Eye Candy</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 24 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl EyeCandy]</a><br /> <br /> clang <br />With each imperfect hit <br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags:</span> <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /></div>
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<h1 id="NAME">
-Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution
+SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<h4><i>The road so far</i></h4><br />
-Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405</a> is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL</a> too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble</a> port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br />
-<br />
-<h4><i>Getting people to use SDL Perl</i></h4><br />
-After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br />
-<br />
-<ul><li>Tutorials/Documentation<br />
-</li>
-
-<ul><li>We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck</li>
-<li>What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners?</li>
-
-<ul><li>A project start to finish?</li>
-<li>Individual tutorials for various topics?</li>
-<li>What needs to go in SDL::CookBook?</li>
-</ul></ul>
-<li>API sweetness</li>
-
-<ul><li>SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries</li>
-
-<ul><li>This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces</li>
-<li>How do people design this stuff?</li>
-
-<ul><li>We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought</li>
-<li>Any takers?</li>
-</ul></ul></ul>
-<li>Distribution</li>
-
-<ul><li>If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus</li>
-
-<ul><li>One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone</li>
-<li>Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? </li>
-</ul></ul></ul><div>If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7164362190686365958?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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-<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/></div></div>
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+<i>PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />
+You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />
+responsive animations and simulations.<br />
+In this section we will go through the pleasures and pitfalls of working with both powerhouse libraries.</i> <b>-- David Mertnes</b><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<h1>Creating a SDL Surface piddle</h1><br />
+PDL's core type is a piddle.<br />
+Once a piddle is provided to PDL it can go do a numerous amounts of things.<br />
+Please see the example in '<a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/examples/cookbook/pdl.pl">examples/cookbook/pdl.pl</a>' in github.<br />
+<br />
+<h3>Creating a simple piddle</h3><br />
+First lets get the right modules.<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>use</span> <span style='color:#b060b0; '>PDL;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>use</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Rect</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>use</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>use</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Surface</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>use</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>PixelFormat</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+Suppose you want a surface of size (200,400) and 32 bit (RGBA).<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $bytes_per_pixel<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $width<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $height <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>4</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>200</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>400</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+Define the <b>$width</b>, <b>$height</b> and <b>$bytes_per_pixel</b>. Your <b>$bytes_per_pixel</b> is the number of bits (in this case 32) divided by 8 bits per byte. Therefore for our 32 bpp we have 4 Bpp;<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> $piddle <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> zeros<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> byte<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $bytes_per_pixel<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $width<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $height <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+Create a normal $piddle with zeros, byte format and the Bpp x width x height dimensions.<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> $pointer <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> $piddle<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>get_dataref<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+Here is where we get the acutal data the piddle is pointing to. We will have SDL create a new surface from this function.<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> $surface <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Surface</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>new_from<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $pointer<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $width<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $height<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>32</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span>
+ $width <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> $bytes_per_pixel <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+Using the same dimensions we create the surface using <b>SDL::Surface->new_form()</b>. The <b>$width * $Bpp</b> is the scanline (pitch) of the surface in bytes.<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>warn</span> <span style='color:#00c4c4; '>"Made surface of </span><span style='color:#00c4c4; '>$width</span><span style='color:#00c4c4; '>, </span><span style='color:#00c4c4; '>$height</span><span style='color:#00c4c4; '> and "</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>.</span> $surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>format<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>BytesPerPixel<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>return</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $piddle<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $surface <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+Finally make sure that the surface acutally has the correct dimensions we gave.<br />
+<br />
+<b>NOTE:</b> <b>$surface->format->BytesPerPixel</b> must return 1,2,3,4. !!<br />
+<br />
+Now you can blit and use the surface as needed; and do PDL operations as required.<br />
+<br />
+<h3>Operating on the Surface safely</h3><br />
+To make sure SDL is in sync with the data. You must call SDL::Video::lock <b>before</b> doing PDL operations on the piddle.<br />
+<br />
+<pre><pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>lock_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+
+ $piddle <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>rand</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>400</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>rand</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>200</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>.</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> pdl<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>rand</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>225</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>rand</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>225</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>rand</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>255</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>255</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre></pre><br />
+After that you can unlock the surface to blit.<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>unlock_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+<h3>Errors due to BPP at blitting</h3><br />
+When blitting the new surface check for the return value to see if there has been a problem.<br />
+<br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> $b <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>blit_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>
+ $surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Rect</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>new<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>w<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>h <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span>
+ $app<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Rect</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>new<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $app<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>w <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span> $surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>w <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>/</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>2</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $app<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>h <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span> $surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>h <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>/</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>2</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $app<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>w<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $app<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span>h <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>
+ <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>die</span> <span style='color:#00c4c4; '>"Could not blit: "</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>.</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>get_error</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>if</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $b <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>1</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+If the error message is 'Blit combination not supported' that means that the BPP is incorrect or incosistent with the dimensions. After that a simple update_rect will so your new surface on the screen.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3580429408870545769?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<h1 id="NAME">
-Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!
+Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-0.001_1/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">CPAN</a>. There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br />
+<p>In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commit/7ee1a1a7f162080a6fa5274e95b80961486e21e5">SDLx::Surface</a>. So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces.</p><br />
+<p>The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: </p><br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'>SV <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> get_pixel32 <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>SDL_Surface <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span>surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>int</span> x<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>int</span> y<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>
+<span style='color:#b060b0; '>{</span>
+ <span style='color:#9999a9; '>//Convert the pixels to 32 bit </span>
+ Uint32 <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span>pixels <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>Uint32 <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>></span>pixels<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+
+ <span style='color:#9999a9; '>//Get the requested pixel </span>
+ Uint32<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> u_ptr <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> pixels <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>+</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> y <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>></span>w <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>+</span> x <span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+
+ SV<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> sv <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> newSVpv<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#02d045; '>"</span><span style='color:#00c4c4; '>a</span><span style='color:#02d045; '>"</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span><span style='color:#008c00; '>1</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>//Make a temp SV* value on the go</span>
+ SvCUR_set<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>sv<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>sizeof</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>Uint32<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>//Specify the new CUR length</span>
+ SvLEN_set<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>sv<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>sizeof</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>Uint32<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>//Specify the LEN length</span>
+ SvPV_set<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>sv<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>char</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>u_ptr<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>// set the actual pixel's pointer as the memory space to use</span>
+
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>return</span> sv<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>//make a modifiable reference using u_ptr's place as the memory :)</span>
+
+<span style='color:#b060b0; '>}</span>
+</pre><br />
+<p>Next I loop through all the pixels and put them in a 2D array format, shown below: </p><pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'>AV <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> construct_p_matrix <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> SDL_Surface <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span>surface <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>
+<span style='color:#b060b0; '>{</span>
+ AV <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> matrix <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> newAV<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>int</span> i<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> j<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>for</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> i <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span><span style='color:#008c00; '>0</span> <span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> i <span style='color:#d2cd86; '><</span> surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>></span>w<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> i<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>+</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>+</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>
+ <span style='color:#b060b0; '>{</span>
+ AV <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> matrix_row <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> newAV<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>for</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> j <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span><span style='color:#008c00; '>0</span> <span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> j <span style='color:#d2cd86; '><</span> surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>></span>h<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> j<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>+</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>+</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>
+ <span style='color:#b060b0; '>{</span>
+ av_push<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>matrix_row<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> get_pixel32<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> i<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span>j<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#b060b0; '>}</span>
+ av_push<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>matrix<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> newRV_noinc<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>SV<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> matrix_row<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#b060b0; '>}</span>
+
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>return</span> matrix<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+<span style='color:#b060b0; '>}</span>
+</pre><br />
+<p>You can see the complete <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/7ee1a1a7f162080a6fa5274e95b80961486e21e5/src/SDLx/Surface.xs">here</a>.</p><br />
+<p>In Perl I can do a get access on this pixel using: </p><br />
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+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> $surf32_matrix <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDLx</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Surface</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>pixel_array<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$screen_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>print</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>unpack</span> <span style='color:#00c4c4; '>'b*'</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $surf32_matrix<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '># pixel value at x = 0 and y =0</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '>#OUTPUT:</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '># 11111111000000000000000000000000</span>
+</pre><br />
+<p>The structure of the PV is using Devel::Peek is : </p><br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>print</span> Dump $surf32_matrix<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '>#OUTPUT:</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '>#SV = PV(0xed0dbc) at 0xeb5344</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '># REFCNT = 1</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '># FLAGS = (POK,pPOK)</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '># PV = 0x9e04ac "\0\0\377\0"</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '># CUR = 4</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '># LEN = 4</span>
+</pre><br />
+<p>The problem is in setting the value of this pointer value. I have tried the following things with no success:</p><br />
+<pre style='color:#d1d1d1;background:#000000;'><span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>if</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>MUSTLOCK<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$screen_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#b060b0; '>{</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>return</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>if</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>lock_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$screen_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '><</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>#required for pixel operations</span>
+<span style='color:#b060b0; '>}</span>
+
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '>#USING pack</span>
+
+<span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>my</span> $green <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>pack</span> <span style='color:#00c4c4; '>'b*'</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00c4c4; '>'11111111000000000000000000000000'</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+<span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>substr</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> $surf32_matrix<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>8</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>4</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> $green<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>#no change</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '>#substr( $surf32_matrix->[0][0], 0, 8 * 4, 0xFF000000); segfault</span>
+<span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>substr</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> ${$surf32_matrix<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span>}<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>8</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>*</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>4</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>,</span> <span style='color:#00a800; '>0xFF000000</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>#no change</span>
+<span style='color:#9999a9; '>#$surf32_matrix->[0][0] = $green; SEGFAULT's cannot write to memory</span>
+${$surf32_matrix<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>-></span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>[</span><span style='color:#00a800; '>0</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>]</span>} <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>=</span> $green<span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span> <span style='color:#9999a9; '>#no change</span>
+
+
+<span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>unlock_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$screen_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span>
+ <span style='color:#e66170; font-weight:bold; '>if</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span> <span style='color:#904050; '>SDL</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>::</span><span style='color:#904050; '>Video</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span><span style='color:#d2cd86; '>:</span>MUSTLOCK<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>(</span>$screen_surface<span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span> <span style='color:#d2cd86; '>)</span><span style='color:#b060b0; '>;</span>
+</pre><br />
+<p>You can see an example <a href="http://paste.scsys.co.uk/45111">here</a>.</p><br />
+<p>Any help will be greatly appreciated. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1929043568015240773?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<h1 id="NAME">
-Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN
+SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<b><br />
-SDL 2.4 is released!</b><br />
+After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/eabffdcf5635fa1f78a9c87d7953a11215609630/scripts/SDLpp.pl">SDLpp.pl</a>. The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />
<br />
-After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br />
+Here is the <a href="http://gist.github.com/301949">shooter.pl</a> packaged up:<br />
+<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R6XKW0E0"></a><br />
+<ol><li><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R6XKW0E0"> win32/64</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://froggs.de/shooter">Linux 5.88</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/shooter.run">Linux 5.10 </a></li>
+</ol><br />
+We are looking into testing this on a Mac Build server.<br />
<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S7uYJbPUFII/AAAAAAAAAK0/oPWO_KQbG80/s1600/fb2.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S7uYJbPUFII/AAAAAAAAAK0/oPWO_KQbG80/s320/fb2.bmp" /></a></div><br />
-<p>If you cannot wait then grab SDL 2.4 and Alien::SDL 1.2 (pick PANGO support) from CPAN and grab the toolchain branch from the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/frozen-bubble/tree/toolchain">repo</a>. Disclaimer the branch will be volatile for a bit.</p><br />
---yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3633977050184282742?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<h1 id="NAME">
-A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )
+Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<h3>GSOC 2010 </h3><br />
-<p>As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <p><br />
+<h4><i>The road so far</i></h4><br />
+Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405</a> is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL</a> too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble</a> port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br />
<br />
-<b>Process to Apply</b><br />
-<ul><li>Sign in as a student here http://socghop.appspot.com/</li>
-<li>Submit a proposal before April 5th</li>
-<li>Usually it helps to discuss the idea with us on irc (#sdl irc.perl.org)</li>
-</ul><br />
+<h4><i>Getting people to use SDL Perl</i></h4><br />
+After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br />
<br />
-<h3>Ideas </h3><br />
-<p><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/gsoc2010">Here</a> are some ideas for SDL perl but we happily accepted student ideas.<br />
- Make a student wiki page on this site of your ideas! We look forward to helping you guys with your ideas :) </p><br />
-<br />
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+<ul><li>Tutorials/Documentation<br />
+</li>
+
+<ul><li>We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck</li>
+<li>What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners?</li>
+
+<ul><li>A project start to finish?</li>
+<li>Individual tutorials for various topics?</li>
+<li>What needs to go in SDL::CookBook?</li>
+</ul></ul>
+<li>API sweetness</li>
+
+<ul><li>SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries</li>
+
+<ul><li>This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces</li>
+<li>How do people design this stuff?</li>
+
+<ul><li>We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought</li>
+<li>Any takers?</li>
+</ul></ul></ul>
+<li>Distribution</li>
+
+<ul><li>If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus</li>
+
+<ul><li>One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone</li>
+<li>Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? </li>
+</ul></ul></ul><div>If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7164362190686365958?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<h1 id="NAME">
-SDL Perl Showcase
+Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<b><br />
-SDL_Mixer and Effects</b><br />
+We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-0.001_1/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">CPAN</a>. There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br />
<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mzzlA_BPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/5n62-vSSKzs/s1600-h/playlist.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mzzlA_BPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/5n62-vSSKzs/s320/playlist.png" /></a></div><br />
-This demo shows the new work we have finished for SDL_Mixer support in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl">SDL_perl</a> . (FROGGS++)<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<ul><li> Plays ogg files in local directory</li>
-<li> Uses threads and SDL_Mixer effects to extract realtime stereo stream data</li>
-<li> Visulizes stream data as an oscilloscope</li>
-</ul><br />
-<br />
-Get it at: <a href="http://github.com/garu/Spinner/raw/master/data/music/playlist.pl">playlist.pl</a>, you need some<a href="http://github.com/garu/Spinner/tree/master/data/music/"> .ogg files</a> to play in the same directory. Use the down key to go through them.<br />
-<br />
-<b><br />
-SDL_TTF support </b><br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz8HnVpkI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/4TV0wJG_GNM/s1600-h/TTF.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz8HnVpkI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/4TV0wJG_GNM/s320/TTF.png" /></a></div><br />
-<br />
-This shows the current work on SDL_TTF support. UTF8 and Uncicode are supported. <br />
-<br />
-See the<a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign/t/ttf.t"> t/ttf.t </a>test in github SDL_perl.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<b id="Spinner"><br />
-Spinner (Destiny Swirl) Arcade Game</b><br />
-<div><br />
-</div><div>And finally as a proof of concept we have been working a simple arcade game to test our bugs, and scope out our high level bindings. You can get it at the <a href="http://github.com/garu/Spinner/">Spinner repo</a>. This <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/TPMFeb2010">wiki page </a>will help you set up for your platforms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz1i9fuDI/AAAAAAAAAKA/nWCGR2U2k6I/s1600-h/spinner.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz1i9fuDI/AAAAAAAAAKA/nWCGR2U2k6I/s320/spinner.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz7Cwi6RI/AAAAAAAAAKI/qV-UwiGaS6E/s1600-h/spinnerII.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz7Cwi6RI/AAAAAAAAAKI/qV-UwiGaS6E/s320/spinnerII.png" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-2785864569764497133?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<h1 id="NAME">
-Eye Candy
+Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<i style="text-align: right;"><br />
-<b>clang </b><br />
-With each imperfect hit <br />
-a legendary blade forms<br />
-</i><br />
+<b><br />
+SDL 2.4 is released!</b><br />
<br />
+After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br />
<br />
-In prep for the TPM meeting we have been working hard to release a new version of SDL Perl and Alien::SDL. After a lot of feed back from testers (Mike Stok, Stuart Watt, and Chas Owens), we where able to get a working version on 64bit and Mac. The releases will be out tomorrow but here <br />
-is some eye candy to tide you guys over.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-This is shooter.pl finally working in MacOSX and 64 bit.<br />
-<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/NQ55t.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://i.imgur.com/NQ55t.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
-<br />
-k23z_ mentioned I should get some more SDL_perl videos out to attract some devs. So here goes. <br />
-<br />
-<a href="http://vimeo.com/9689482">Walking Guy</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3244181">SDLPerl</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7753290048735163114?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S7uYJbPUFII/AAAAAAAAAK0/oPWO_KQbG80/s1600/fb2.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S7uYJbPUFII/AAAAAAAAAK0/oPWO_KQbG80/s320/fb2.bmp" /></a></div><br />
+<p>If you cannot wait then grab SDL 2.4 and Alien::SDL 1.2 (pick PANGO support) from CPAN and grab the toolchain branch from the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/frozen-bubble/tree/toolchain">repo</a>. Disclaimer the branch will be volatile for a bit.</p><br />
+--yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3633977050184282742?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-New build system! Needs testing!
+A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<i></i><br />
-<i></i><br />
-<i></i><br />
-<i></i><br />
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>Rome was not built,</i></span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>in one day,</i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i> feature creep,</i></span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>existed back then too.</i></span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><br />
-</i></span></i><br />
-<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://github.com/kmx">kmx</a>++ recently worked on a brand new Build system for Alien::SDL and SDL_perl. We have managed to test it in Windows and Linux environments. We would still appreciate testing on all environments. However none of us have a shiny Mac to try this on. So if you have a Mac please consider testing the following:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
-</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Download <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/Alien_SDL/tarball/master">Alien::SDL</a> </span></i></li>
-
-<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">install it</span></i></li>
-<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">select build by source</span></i></li>
-</ul>
-<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Download <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tarball/redesign">SDL::perl</a></span></i></li>
-
-<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Extract it</span></i></li>
-<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">perl Build.PL</span></i></li>
-<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">perl Build</span></i></li>
-<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">See if Bundling works ( Maybe Brian's <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2010/02/i-almost-have-sdl-perl-working-on-snow-leopard.html">article</a> may help )</span></i></li>
-</ul></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Thank you very much!</span></i><br />
+<h3>GSOC 2010 </h3><br />
+<p>As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <p><br />
<br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">EDIT: </span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> After some reports back we have found out that SDL_gfx needs </span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
-</span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/SDL_gfx#64Bit</span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
-</span></i><br />
-<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">We are working to get this done.</span></i></div></div><i></i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7073479532507652908?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<b>Process to Apply</b><br />
+<ul><li>Sign in as a student here http://socghop.appspot.com/</li>
+<li>Submit a proposal before April 5th</li>
+<li>Usually it helps to discuss the idea with us on irc (#sdl irc.perl.org)</li>
+</ul><br />
+<br />
+<h3>Ideas </h3><br />
+<p><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/gsoc2010">Here</a> are some ideas for SDL perl but we happily accepted student ideas.<br />
+ Make a student wiki page on this site of your ideas! We look forward to helping you guys with your ideas :) </p><br />
+<br />
+--yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7079398614405091312?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers
+SDL Perl Showcase
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<i><br />
-<div style="text-align: right;">Beep ... Boop<br />
-</div></i><br />
+<b><br />
+SDL_Mixer and Effects</b><br />
<br />
-So I am preparing a presentation of the new SDL perl for February's Toronto Perl Mongers meeting. What better way to so off SDL perl then with a game? <br />
+<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mzzlA_BPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/5n62-vSSKzs/s1600-h/playlist.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mzzlA_BPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/5n62-vSSKzs/s320/playlist.png" /></a></div><br />
+This demo shows the new work we have finished for SDL_Mixer support in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl">SDL_perl</a> . (FROGGS++)<br />
<br />
-I started hacking a small point an click game a few days back. I really didn't have a idea in mind, but I did have a goal. I wanted to make a game that shows the basics of a game in SDL. Drawing to screen, game loops, physics and so on. I think I have accomplished it so far. <br />
<br />
-Take a look at it <a alt="Click the balls to win" href="http://gist.github.com/301949">here</a>. Download that and call it<a alt="Click the balls to win" href="http://gist.github.com/301949">[Shooter.pl]</a>. To win click the balls.<br />
+<ul><li> Plays ogg files in local directory</li>
+<li> Uses threads and SDL_Mixer effects to extract realtime stereo stream data</li>
+<li> Visulizes stream data as an oscilloscope</li>
+</ul><br />
<br />
-To play this game you need the following:<br />
+Get it at: <a href="http://github.com/garu/Spinner/raw/master/data/music/playlist.pl">playlist.pl</a>, you need some<a href="http://github.com/garu/Spinner/tree/master/data/music/"> .ogg files</a> to play in the same directory. Use the down key to go through them.<br />
<br />
-<ul><li> <b>Only for Linux)</b> sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libsdl_gfx-dev </li>
-<li> cpan Alien::SDL </li>
-<li> Click Download Source http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign </li>
-<li> Extract it </li>
-<li> perl Build.PL; perl Build; perl Build install </li>
-<li> perl Shooter.pl </li>
-</ul><br />
-I will put up binaries soon-ish.<br />
+<b><br />
+SDL_TTF support </b><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz8HnVpkI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/4TV0wJG_GNM/s1600-h/TTF.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz8HnVpkI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/4TV0wJG_GNM/s320/TTF.png" /></a></div><br />
+<br />
+This shows the current work on SDL_TTF support. UTF8 and Uncicode are supported. <br />
+<br />
+See the<a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign/t/ttf.t"> t/ttf.t </a>test in github SDL_perl.<br />
<br />
-It is a playable (albeit hard) game right now. All 7 seven levels of it. The purpose of the game is simple click the balls to win. Sounds easy but it isn't. You also get a time in milliseconds after each level. Share your scores on here! I will leave it up to you guys to be honest. <br />
<br />
-I do have to tidy it up and right documentation for it. This way I will be able to present it clearly to my fellow mongers. I am also still looking for ideas to make this a more polished game. FROGGS recommend I make it a classic NES duck hunt game. I thought since I am using gravity I could do a UFO game out of it where you shoot the UFOs. I am open to your ideas.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1585061047069454098?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<b id="Spinner"><br />
+Spinner (Destiny Swirl) Arcade Game</b><br />
+<div><br />
+</div><div>And finally as a proof of concept we have been working a simple arcade game to test our bugs, and scope out our high level bindings. You can get it at the <a href="http://github.com/garu/Spinner/">Spinner repo</a>. This <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/TPMFeb2010">wiki page </a>will help you set up for your platforms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz1i9fuDI/AAAAAAAAAKA/nWCGR2U2k6I/s1600-h/spinner.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz1i9fuDI/AAAAAAAAAKA/nWCGR2U2k6I/s320/spinner.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz7Cwi6RI/AAAAAAAAAKI/qV-UwiGaS6E/s1600-h/spinnerII.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/S5mz7Cwi6RI/AAAAAAAAAKI/qV-UwiGaS6E/s320/spinnerII.png" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-2785864569764497133?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!
+Eye Candy
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>We keep on rolling,<br />
-rolling,<br />
-waiting on the world to turn.</i><br />
-</div><br />
-So a new alpha is out on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL-2.3_5/">CPAN</a>, after a bit of a break. We are trying to pick up our speed again. Hopefully we can get back to the weekly updates. This week I am going to try to get Mixer and TTF bindings test, redesigned and doc'd. Hopefully soon we can start working on Frozen Bubble, as things are starting to come together. This alpha release has finally given us a good implementation of SDL Timers. Also <a href="http://daniel.ruoso.com/categoria/perl/games-perl-1">Daniel Ruoso</a> has also started a series blog posts of making games with SDL Perl. Hopefully this can get more people in SDL, cause we can sure use the help!<br />
-<br />
-<i>More to come --yapgh</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-896792692004201189?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<i style="text-align: right;"><br />
+<b>clang </b><br />
+With each imperfect hit <br />
+a legendary blade forms<br />
+</i><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+In prep for the TPM meeting we have been working hard to release a new version of SDL Perl and Alien::SDL. After a lot of feed back from testers (Mike Stok, Stuart Watt, and Chas Owens), we where able to get a working version on 64bit and Mac. The releases will be out tomorrow but here <br />
+is some eye candy to tide you guys over.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+This is shooter.pl finally working in MacOSX and 64 bit.<br />
+<br />
+<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/NQ55t.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://i.imgur.com/NQ55t.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
+<br />
+k23z_ mentioned I should get some more SDL_perl videos out to attract some devs. So here goes. <br />
+<br />
+<a href="http://vimeo.com/9689482">Walking Guy</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3244181">SDLPerl</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7753290048735163114?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.
+New build system! Needs testing!
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
-Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />
-into the guts and gore of the monster,<br />
-a welcoming cringe in the gut approaches. <br />
-</i><br />
-</div><br />
+<i></i><br />
+<i></i><br />
+<i></i><br />
+<i></i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>Rome was not built,</i></span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>in one day,</i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i> feature creep,</i></span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>existed back then too.</i></span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><br />
+</i></span></i><br />
+<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://github.com/kmx">kmx</a>++ recently worked on a brand new Build system for Alien::SDL and SDL_perl. We have managed to test it in Windows and Linux environments. We would still appreciate testing on all environments. However none of us have a shiny Mac to try this on. So if you have a Mac please consider testing the following:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
+</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Download <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/Alien_SDL/tarball/master">Alien::SDL</a> </span></i></li>
+
+<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">install it</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">select build by source</span></i></li>
+</ul>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Download <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tarball/redesign">SDL::perl</a></span></i></li>
+
+<ul><li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Extract it</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">perl Build.PL</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">perl Build</span></i></li>
+<li style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">See if Bundling works ( Maybe Brian's <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2010/02/i-almost-have-sdl-perl-working-on-snow-leopard.html">article</a> may help )</span></i></li>
+</ul></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Thank you very much!</span></i><br />
<br />
-So I was planning staying silent until an exam I had was done. But new developers on IRC (j_king, felix and ruoso) pull me back in. Which is a good thing ... I suppose ... because we finally have threaded callbacks for timer and audiospec to work. ruoso++ for this major contribution. If you remember this was the <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791114/creating-threaded-callbacks-in-xs">problem</a> we were having. <br />
-<br />
-The new callbacks capability in audiospec allow you to procedurally generate sound now. If you would like a simple example take a look at <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/redesign/t/core_audiospec.t"> t/core_audiospec.t</a>. However a more fun example may be ruoso++'s <a href="http://github.com/ruoso/tecla">tecla</a> (a game for toddlers). Myself and Garu think it is a work of art but that is only because we are toddlers. <br />
-<br />
-On a side note some tickets on RT have also received some love ( after 3 or 4 years ... but nonetheless). TonyC++ sorry for the long time in response. <br />
-<br />
-More information on the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/redesign/CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a>. <br />
-<br />
-Also a shout out to FROGGS for his new SON!!!. Congrats buddy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-6642671796628033537?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">EDIT: </span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> After some reports back we have found out that SDL_gfx needs </span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
+</span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/SDL_gfx#64Bit</span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
+</span></i><br />
+<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">We are working to get this done.</span></i></div></div><i></i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7073479532507652908?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview
+Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Pretty or Ugly,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Code is Code</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>New or Old,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Code is Code</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Fast or Slow</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Code is Code </i> <br />
-</div><br />
-So over the past week we have been working hard to release the next Alpha for SDL-2.3. In this release we have ported SDL_Image completely, fixed false negatives in our testing suite, improved conditional building. Also we have also started to migrate the very pretty SDL_GFX library. Here is the test for it, enjoy.<br />
+<i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;">Beep ... Boop<br />
+</div></i><br />
<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/Sxu4V-sXPrI/AAAAAAAAACI/dmbHSG7C6I0/s1600-h/gfx.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/Sxu4V-sXPrI/AAAAAAAAACI/dmbHSG7C6I0/s320/gfx.png" /></a><br />
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+So I am preparing a presentation of the new SDL perl for February's Toronto Perl Mongers meeting. What better way to so off SDL perl then with a game? <br />
+<br />
+I started hacking a small point an click game a few days back. I really didn't have a idea in mind, but I did have a goal. I wanted to make a game that shows the basics of a game in SDL. Drawing to screen, game loops, physics and so on. I think I have accomplished it so far. <br />
+<br />
+Take a look at it <a alt="Click the balls to win" href="http://gist.github.com/301949">here</a>. Download that and call it<a alt="Click the balls to win" href="http://gist.github.com/301949">[Shooter.pl]</a>. To win click the balls.<br />
+<br />
+To play this game you need the following:<br />
+<br />
+<ul><li> <b>Only for Linux)</b> sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libsdl_gfx-dev </li>
+<li> cpan Alien::SDL </li>
+<li> Click Download Source http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign </li>
+<li> Extract it </li>
+<li> perl Build.PL; perl Build; perl Build install </li>
+<li> perl Shooter.pl </li>
+</ul><br />
+I will put up binaries soon-ish.<br />
+<br />
+It is a playable (albeit hard) game right now. All 7 seven levels of it. The purpose of the game is simple click the balls to win. Sounds easy but it isn't. You also get a time in milliseconds after each level. Share your scores on here! I will leave it up to you guys to be honest. <br />
+<br />
+I do have to tidy it up and right documentation for it. This way I will be able to present it clearly to my fellow mongers. I am also still looking for ideas to make this a more polished game. FROGGS recommend I make it a classic NES duck hunt game. I thought since I am using gravity I could do a UFO game out of it where you shoot the UFOs. I am open to your ideas.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1585061047069454098?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1
+SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
-The city of Rome was built,<br />
-with the first brick.<br />
-</i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>We keep on rolling,<br />
+rolling,<br />
+waiting on the world to turn.</i><br />
</div><br />
-<h1>Alpha Release of new API</h1>After a considerable amount of hacking and rewriting we have release the first development release of SDL perl on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/SDL-2.3_1/">CPAN</a>. <br />
+So a new alpha is out on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL-2.3_5/">CPAN</a>, after a bit of a break. We are trying to pick up our speed again. Hopefully we can get back to the weekly updates. This week I am going to try to get Mixer and TTF bindings test, redesigned and doc'd. Hopefully soon we can start working on Frozen Bubble, as things are starting to come together. This alpha release has finally given us a good implementation of SDL Timers. Also <a href="http://daniel.ruoso.com/categoria/perl/games-perl-1">Daniel Ruoso</a> has also started a series blog posts of making games with SDL Perl. Hopefully this can get more people in SDL, cause we can sure use the help!<br />
<br />
-<h2>Overview of 2.3_1</h2>In this version our goal was to tackle the proper allocations and destruction of SDL resources. We have accomplished this for all SDL Core structures. Moreover we have also improved the test suite and documentation considerably. Please read the <a href="http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/KTHAKORE/SDL-2.3_1/CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a> for a more detailed look. <br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<h2>Next steps</h2><ul><li>Complete bindings for Image, Mixer, ... so on</li>
-<li>Come up with a method to provide threading in callbacks</li>
-<li>Maintain and improve SDL Core as results for CPANTS come in </li>
-</ul><br />
---yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1644800761128707914?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<i>More to come --yapgh</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-896792692004201189?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need
+Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
-The written word, <br />
-survives; <br />
-the tests of Time,<br />
-the fires of Hades,<br />
-and wrath of Pluto.<br />
+Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />
+into the guts and gore of the monster,<br />
+a welcoming cringe in the gut approaches. <br />
</i><br />
</div><br />
-<h1>Documentation </h1><p>In an effort to learn from past versions of SDL Perl and improve. We have been writing lots of documentation for our users. Of course since this is the first time we have been providing documentation we need your help. Please review our docs, at <a href="http://sdl.perl.org/documentation.html">sdl.perl.org</a> and give us some feed back. Send us the feeback at sdl-devel@mail.org or join us at #sdl irc.perl.org</p><br />
-<i>--yapgh</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1574568821593098925?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<br />
+So I was planning staying silent until an exam I had was done. But new developers on IRC (j_king, felix and ruoso) pull me back in. Which is a good thing ... I suppose ... because we finally have threaded callbacks for timer and audiospec to work. ruoso++ for this major contribution. If you remember this was the <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791114/creating-threaded-callbacks-in-xs">problem</a> we were having. <br />
+<br />
+The new callbacks capability in audiospec allow you to procedurally generate sound now. If you would like a simple example take a look at <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/redesign/t/core_audiospec.t"> t/core_audiospec.t</a>. However a more fun example may be ruoso++'s <a href="http://github.com/ruoso/tecla">tecla</a> (a game for toddlers). Myself and Garu think it is a work of art but that is only because we are toddlers. <br />
+<br />
+On a side note some tickets on RT have also received some love ( after 3 or 4 years ... but nonetheless). TonyC++ sorry for the long time in response. <br />
+<br />
+More information on the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/redesign/CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a>. <br />
+<br />
+Also a shout out to FROGGS for his new SON!!!. Congrats buddy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-6642671796628033537?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl
+SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton</i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Pretty or Ugly,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Code is Code</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>New or Old,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Code is Code</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Fast or Slow</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Code is Code </i> <br />
</div><br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SwBpohYidDI/AAAAAAAAAB4/51y9QJh5osI/s1600-h/solsch2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SwBpohYidDI/AAAAAAAAAB4/51y9QJh5osI/s320/solsch2.png" /></a><br />
-</div><br />
-<h1><a href="http://sol.gfxile.net/gp/index.html">Sol's Tutorials</a> </h1><br />
-<p>When I was struggling with SDL C a while ago, someone recommended <a href="http://sol.gfxile.net/gp/index.html">Sol's Tutorial</a> to me. It had not only help me understand video in SDL, but I believe my code has improved using Sol's code style. I would like to pass these along to fellow SDL_Perl users too. So here is the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/redesign/examples/sols/ch02.pl">Ch 02</a> code of Sol's Tutorial in SDL_Perl. It will be getting more and more Perly as our team hacks on it. There is more to come!<br />
-</p><br />
-<p>To use this code you need the new Redesigned SDL_Perl Library </p><br />
-<h1>Getting SDL Dependencies </h1><br />
-Only If you are on Linux (debian/ubuntu) you need the following dependencies:<br />
-<br />
-<pre>$ sudo apt-get install libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev </pre><br />
-On Windows we recommend using <a href="http://strawberryperl.com/">Strawberry Perl</a>. It comes with SDL-1.2.13 header files and libs included.<br />
-<br />
-Both Windows and Linux needs to install Alien::SDL<br />
-<br />
-<pre>$ cpan Alien::SDL</pre>** Add sudo to this for Linux<br />
-<br />
-<h1>Getting Bleeding SDL </h1><br />
-The bleeding SDL is on github. Click download on this <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign"> site </a>.<br />
-<br />
-Extract it and cd into the folder run <br />
-<pre>$ cpan . </pre>** The dot is needed <br />
-** in Linux you may need to do sudo<br />
-<br />
-Then you can run this script by doing<br />
+So over the past week we have been working hard to release the next Alpha for SDL-2.3. In this release we have ported SDL_Image completely, fixed false negatives in our testing suite, improved conditional building. Also we have also started to migrate the very pretty SDL_GFX library. Here is the test for it, enjoy.<br />
<br />
-<pre>$ perl examples/sols/ch02.pl </pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3277380868908060119?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)
+Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i> <br />
-Once in a while <br />
-Things just work! <br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
+The city of Rome was built,<br />
+with the first brick.<br />
</i><br />
</div><br />
+<h1>Alpha Release of new API</h1>After a considerable amount of hacking and rewriting we have release the first development release of SDL perl on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/SDL-2.3_1/">CPAN</a>. <br />
<br />
-So I have been hacking for a while on SDL::Events::set_event_filter. The code below is an example usage. The magic behind this is <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/1712fe42d62c2a3e382e6bf91366eb2ce9d2f5f4/src/Core/Events.xs">here</a> <br />
+<h2>Overview of 2.3_1</h2>In this version our goal was to tackle the proper allocations and destruction of SDL resources. We have accomplished this for all SDL Core structures. Moreover we have also improved the test suite and documentation considerably. Please read the <a href="http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/KTHAKORE/SDL-2.3_1/CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a> for a more detailed look. <br />
<br />
-<pre><a href="" name="line1"> 1</a> <span style="color: #444444;">#!/usr/bin/perl -w
-<a href="" name="line2"> 2</a> </span><b>use</b> strict;
-<a href="" name="line3"> 3</a> <b>use</b> warnings;
-<a href="" name="line4"> 4</a> <b>use</b> SDL v2.3; <span style="color: #444444;">#Require the redesign branch
-<a href="" name="line5"> 5</a> </span><b>use</b> SDL::Video;
-<a href="" name="line6"> 6</a> <b>use</b> SDL::Event;
-<a href="" name="line7"> 7</a> <b>use</b> SDL::Events;
-<a href="" name="line8"> 8</a>
-<a href="" name="line9"> 9</a> SDL::init<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>SDL_INIT_VIDEO<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line10">10</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$display</span> = SDL::Video::set_video_mode<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>640,480,32, SDL_SWSURFACE <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line11">11</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span> = SDL::Event-><b>new</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line12">12</a>
-<a href="" name="line13">13</a> <span style="color: #444444;">#This filters out all ActiveEvents
-<a href="" name="line14">14</a> </span><b>my</b> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$filter</span> = sub <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line15">15</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$e</span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$type</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> = <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$_</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>[</b></span>0<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>]</b></span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$_</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>[</b></span>0<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>]</b></span>->type<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line16">16</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$type</span> == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span> <b>return</b> 0 <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line17">17</a> <b>elsif</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$type</span> == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN && <span style="color: #2040a0;">$e</span>->button_button == 1<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span> <b>return</b> 0 <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line18">18</a> <b>else</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span> <b>return</b> 1; <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line19">19</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line20">20</a>
-<a href="" name="line21">21</a> SDL::Events::set_event_filter<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$filter</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line22">22</a>
-<a href="" name="line23">23</a> <b>while</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>1<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line24">24</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line25">25</a>
-<a href="" name="line26">26</a> SDL::Events::pump_events<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line27">27</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>SDL::Events::poll_event<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line28">28</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line29">29</a>
-<a href="" name="line30">30</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->type == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line31">31</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line32">32</a> <span style="color: brown;"><b>print</b></span> <span style="color: green;">"Hello Mouse!!!<span style="color: #77dd77;">\n</span>"</span> <b>if</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_gain && <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line33">33</a> <span style="color: brown;"><b>print</b></span> <span style="color: green;">"Bye Mouse!!!<span style="color: #77dd77;">\n</span>"</span> <b>if</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>!<span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_gain && <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line34">34</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line35">35</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->type == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line36">36</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line37">37</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$x</span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$y</span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$but</span> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> = <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->button_x, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->button_y, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->button_button<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line38">38</a> <span style="color: brown;"><b>warn</b></span> <span style="color: green;">"<span style="color: #2040a0;">$but</span> CLICK!!! at <span style="color: #2040a0;">$x</span> and <span style="color: #2040a0;">$y</span> <span style="color: #77dd77;">\n</span>"</span>;
-<a href="" name="line39">39</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line40">40</a>
-<a href="" name="line41">41</a> <b>last</b> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->type == SDL_QUIT<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
-<a href="" name="line42">42</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line43">43</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
-<a href="" name="line44">44</a> SDL::quit<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>; </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>Tinker with $filter and look at perldoc lib/SDL/pods/Event.pod. </pre><pre> </pre><pre>Have fun,</pre><pre>--yapgh</pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-2301663122914111362?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<br />
+<h2>Next steps</h2><ul><li>Complete bindings for Image, Mixer, ... so on</li>
+<li>Come up with a method to provide threading in callbacks</li>
+<li>Maintain and improve SDL Core as results for CPANTS come in </li>
+</ul><br />
+--yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1644800761128707914?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code
+SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />
---mst</i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
+The written word, <br />
+survives; <br />
+the tests of Time,<br />
+the fires of Hades,<br />
+and wrath of Pluto.<br />
+</i><br />
</div><br />
-You need the new code from the <b> <a href="http://http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_Perl/tree/redesign">redesign branch</a></b> to use this . <br />
-<br />
-<pre class="fake-gist" id="fake-gist-231987">#!/usr/bin/env perl
-
-use SDL;
-use SDL::Events;
-use SDL::Event;
-use SDL::Video;
-
-SDL::init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
-
-my $display = SDL::Video::set_video_mode(640,480,32, SDL_SWSURFACE );
-my $event = SDL::Event->new();
-
-while(1)
-{
- SDL::Events::pump_events();
-
- if(SDL::Events::poll_event($event) && $event->type == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT)
- {
- print "Hello Mouse!!!\n" if ($event->active_gain && ($event->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS) );
- print "Bye Mouse!!!\n" if (!$event->active_gain && ($event->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS) );
- }
-
- exit if($event->type == SDL_QUIT);
-}</pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4268622242266513664?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<h1>Documentation </h1><p>In an effort to learn from past versions of SDL Perl and improve. We have been writing lots of documentation for our users. Of course since this is the first time we have been providing documentation we need your help. Please review our docs, at <a href="http://sdl.perl.org/documentation.html">sdl.perl.org</a> and give us some feed back. Send us the feeback at sdl-devel@mail.org or join us at #sdl irc.perl.org</p><br />
+<i>--yapgh</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1574568821593098925?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Development Update
+Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Short and Sweet</i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton</i><br />
</div><br />
-Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br />
-<ul><li> SDL::Video at 97% </li>
-<li> SDL::Events at 25% </li>
-<li> ~1000 tests cases passing on Windows and Linux </li>
-</ul><br />
-<a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_graphs/start/1"><img alt="SDL Smoke tests" src="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_graphs/image/1" /> </a><br />
+<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SwBpohYidDI/AAAAAAAAAB4/51y9QJh5osI/s1600-h/solsch2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SwBpohYidDI/AAAAAAAAAB4/51y9QJh5osI/s320/solsch2.png" /></a><br />
+</div><br />
+<h1><a href="http://sol.gfxile.net/gp/index.html">Sol's Tutorials</a> </h1><br />
+<p>When I was struggling with SDL C a while ago, someone recommended <a href="http://sol.gfxile.net/gp/index.html">Sol's Tutorial</a> to me. It had not only help me understand video in SDL, but I believe my code has improved using Sol's code style. I would like to pass these along to fellow SDL_Perl users too. So here is the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/redesign/examples/sols/ch02.pl">Ch 02</a> code of Sol's Tutorial in SDL_Perl. It will be getting more and more Perly as our team hacks on it. There is more to come!<br />
+</p><br />
+<p>To use this code you need the new Redesigned SDL_Perl Library </p><br />
+<h1>Getting SDL Dependencies </h1><br />
+Only If you are on Linux (debian/ubuntu) you need the following dependencies:<br />
+<br />
+<pre>$ sudo apt-get install libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev </pre><br />
+On Windows we recommend using <a href="http://strawberryperl.com/">Strawberry Perl</a>. It comes with SDL-1.2.13 header files and libs included.<br />
+<br />
+Both Windows and Linux needs to install Alien::SDL<br />
+<br />
+<pre>$ cpan Alien::SDL</pre>** Add sudo to this for Linux<br />
+<br />
+<h1>Getting Bleeding SDL </h1><br />
+The bleeding SDL is on github. Click download on this <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign"> site </a>.<br />
+<br />
+Extract it and cd into the folder run <br />
+<pre>$ cpan . </pre>** The dot is needed <br />
+** in Linux you may need to do sudo<br />
<br />
-The major release maybe coming quicker than we thought. FROGGS++ for helping a lot out on this. However we need <b>more testers!!</b> Please contact us on <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl">#sdl</a> and we will set you up with an account on <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/">Smolder</a>.<br />
+Then you can run this script by doing<br />
<br />
-[Edit] Please read http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing on how to get started in test!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4856093544888768121?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<pre>$ perl examples/sols/ch02.pl </pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3277380868908060119?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Development Update
+Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
-A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />
-but will some effort,<br />
-A rolling rock will run!<br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i> <br />
+Once in a while <br />
+Things just work! <br />
</i><br />
</div><br />
-In the past week the SDL Perl team has been busy! This is what we have accomplished<br />
<br />
-<br />
-<h3>Commitment to Testing!</h3>In an effort to focus on continuing our focus on testing we have setup a <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_projects/smoke_reports/1">Smolder</a> site for the SDL redesign process. Currently we have two platforms (linux, windows32) regularly tested on here. If there are more people following the redesign process and would like to share their test results; contact us at sdl-devel@perl.org and we will provide access to you.<br />
-<br />
-<h3>SDL::Video</h3>For the core development most of the focus has been on redesigning around the Video category of the SDL perl API. As of now we are <a href="http://bit.ly/2ar7bK">50% done</a>. 19 functions out of 38 functions have been implemented and tested. <br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<h3>Site Redesign + Migration</h3>On the end of the spectrum, Froggs has been hard at work on the <a href="http://froggs.de/sdlperl/">graphical design </a>of the site. More over with mst's help we will soon be migrating to http://sdl.perl.org. <br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<h3>Documentation</h3>Moreover this week we have seen an increase effort from magnet on the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commits/redesign">SDL docs</a>. Kudos!<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<h3>SWIG Experimentation</h3>Finally <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commits/swig">Katrina</a> has begun looking into SWIG as alternative for SDL in the future.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-5353247044730007101?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+So I have been hacking for a while on SDL::Events::set_event_filter. The code below is an example usage. The magic behind this is <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/1712fe42d62c2a3e382e6bf91366eb2ce9d2f5f4/src/Core/Events.xs">here</a> <br />
+<br />
+<pre><a href="" name="line1"> 1</a> <span style="color: #444444;">#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+<a href="" name="line2"> 2</a> </span><b>use</b> strict;
+<a href="" name="line3"> 3</a> <b>use</b> warnings;
+<a href="" name="line4"> 4</a> <b>use</b> SDL v2.3; <span style="color: #444444;">#Require the redesign branch
+<a href="" name="line5"> 5</a> </span><b>use</b> SDL::Video;
+<a href="" name="line6"> 6</a> <b>use</b> SDL::Event;
+<a href="" name="line7"> 7</a> <b>use</b> SDL::Events;
+<a href="" name="line8"> 8</a>
+<a href="" name="line9"> 9</a> SDL::init<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>SDL_INIT_VIDEO<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line10">10</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$display</span> = SDL::Video::set_video_mode<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>640,480,32, SDL_SWSURFACE <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line11">11</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span> = SDL::Event-><b>new</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line12">12</a>
+<a href="" name="line13">13</a> <span style="color: #444444;">#This filters out all ActiveEvents
+<a href="" name="line14">14</a> </span><b>my</b> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$filter</span> = sub <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line15">15</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$e</span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$type</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> = <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$_</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>[</b></span>0<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>]</b></span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$_</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>[</b></span>0<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>]</b></span>->type<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line16">16</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$type</span> == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span> <b>return</b> 0 <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line17">17</a> <b>elsif</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$type</span> == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN && <span style="color: #2040a0;">$e</span>->button_button == 1<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span> <b>return</b> 0 <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line18">18</a> <b>else</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span> <b>return</b> 1; <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line19">19</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line20">20</a>
+<a href="" name="line21">21</a> SDL::Events::set_event_filter<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$filter</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line22">22</a>
+<a href="" name="line23">23</a> <b>while</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>1<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line24">24</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line25">25</a>
+<a href="" name="line26">26</a> SDL::Events::pump_events<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line27">27</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>SDL::Events::poll_event<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line28">28</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line29">29</a>
+<a href="" name="line30">30</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->type == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line31">31</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line32">32</a> <span style="color: brown;"><b>print</b></span> <span style="color: green;">"Hello Mouse!!!<span style="color: #77dd77;">\n</span>"</span> <b>if</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_gain && <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line33">33</a> <span style="color: brown;"><b>print</b></span> <span style="color: green;">"Bye Mouse!!!<span style="color: #77dd77;">\n</span>"</span> <b>if</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span>!<span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_gain && <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line34">34</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line35">35</a> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span> <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->type == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line36">36</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>{</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line37">37</a> <b>my</b> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$x</span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$y</span>, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$but</span> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span> = <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->button_x, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->button_y, <span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->button_button<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line38">38</a> <span style="color: brown;"><b>warn</b></span> <span style="color: green;">"<span style="color: #2040a0;">$but</span> CLICK!!! at <span style="color: #2040a0;">$x</span> and <span style="color: #2040a0;">$y</span> <span style="color: #77dd77;">\n</span>"</span>;
+<a href="" name="line39">39</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line40">40</a>
+<a href="" name="line41">41</a> <b>last</b> <b>if</b><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #2040a0;">$event</span>->type == SDL_QUIT<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>;
+<a href="" name="line42">42</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line43">43</a> <span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>}</b></span>
+<a href="" name="line44">44</a> SDL::quit<span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>(</b></span><span style="color: #4444ff;"><b>)</b></span>; </pre><pre> </pre><pre> </pre><pre>Tinker with $filter and look at perldoc lib/SDL/pods/Event.pod. </pre><pre> </pre><pre>Have fun,</pre><pre>--yapgh</pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-2301663122914111362?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-The Future and Beyond!
+Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>I do not think about awesomeness...<br />
-I just am awesomeness<br />
-n.n<br />
---<a href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/sdl/2009-10-20#i_1620287">KatrinaTheLamia</a></i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />
+--mst</i><br />
</div><br />
-<h3>Updates</h3>Since the last post SDL Perl has seen an increase of interest to both use and contribute to SDL Perl. Before I dig into the updates, I would like to acknowledge them.<br />
-<h3>Core Development</h3><b>Acme (<a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Eacme/journal/">Leon Brocard</a>):</b> Has started to work on the Redesign Effort with me. The help is much appreciated! Enjoy your vacation. <br />
+You need the new code from the <b> <a href="http://http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_Perl/tree/redesign">redesign branch</a></b> to use this . <br />
<br />
-<h3>Website and Windows Testing</h3><b>FROGGS (Tobias Leich):</b> Came in as a new user to SDL Perl. And after breaking the redesigned SDL Perl in as many ways possible he has decided to help out on the new site. <br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<h3>Last Legacy Release</h3><br />
-Ok! Now this weekend hopefully we will release our last legacy release, after this we move on! This release will focus on showing of SDL + Perl possibilities.<br />
-<h3>Pong + SDL::Game::Rect</h3><a href="http://onionstand.blogspot.com/">garu</a> has been working on making SDL object extensions that provide a more perly way to use and play with the SDL bindings. To demonstrate the benefits of this SDL::Tutorial::Pong is done and being polished up. SDL::Game::Rect is a peek in to the design and vision we have for SDL down the road.<br />
-<h3>Design</h3>The design we have settled on for future release for SDL Perl can be broken in to two layers, SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. Previously the SDL Perl library tried to provide C bindings and provide Perl Idiomatic access. This was messy in regards to the single responsibility principle (do one thing and do it well).<br />
-<br />
-We have decided to separate these two focuses into the two name spaces SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. SDL::* will provide straight access to SDL's C API, nothing less and nothing more. SDL::Game::* will extend and make pretty unicorns for Perl. <br />
-<br />
-This design has already begin to pay of. One major benefit been in the XS <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commit/20f544ea4f3e7b34c68445aba89ed9c69d411ddf">readability</a>. Moreover since structs are treated as objects, Perl manages their destruction, and deliver less memory leaks.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4327446497206876141?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<pre class="fake-gist" id="fake-gist-231987">#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use SDL;
+use SDL::Events;
+use SDL::Event;
+use SDL::Video;
+
+SDL::init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
+
+my $display = SDL::Video::set_video_mode(640,480,32, SDL_SWSURFACE );
+my $event = SDL::Event->new();
+
+while(1)
+{
+ SDL::Events::pump_events();
+
+ if(SDL::Events::poll_event($event) && $event->type == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT)
+ {
+ print "Hello Mouse!!!\n" if ($event->active_gain && ($event->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS) );
+ print "Bye Mouse!!!\n" if (!$event->active_gain && ($event->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS) );
+ }
+
+ exit if($event->type == SDL_QUIT);
+}</pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4268622242266513664?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl
+Development Update
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<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 />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Short and Sweet</i><br />
+</div><br />
+Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br />
+<ul><li> SDL::Video at 97% </li>
+<li> SDL::Events at 25% </li>
+<li> ~1000 tests cases passing on Windows and Linux </li>
+</ul><br />
+<a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_graphs/start/1"><img alt="SDL Smoke tests" src="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_graphs/image/1" /> </a><br />
<br />
-</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 />
+The major release maybe coming quicker than we thought. FROGGS++ for helping a lot out on this. However we need <b>more testers!!</b> Please contact us on <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl">#sdl</a> and we will set you up with an account on <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/">Smolder</a>.<br />
<br />
-<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 />
-<br />
-<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 />
-<br />
-<br />
-<h3>Before</h3><br />
-SDL::Rect->new( -x => 0, -y => 0, -width => 0, -height => 0);<br />
-<br />
-<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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+[Edit] Please read http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing on how to get started in test!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4856093544888768121?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN
+Development Update
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>A single drop,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>causes the ocean to swell</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">So 5 weeks ago, SDL Perl was broken. It had been for several years. After the last release SDL Perl works ... somewhat. The quick releases that you have seen have been work-arounds, fixes and refactoring. This is not bad for a few weeks of work but, there is a point where code smell and technical debt is too huge to fix with out redesigning. This is that point.<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">Since the redesigning will take time and effort it will be good to have a leg up. This leg up is Frozen Bubble 2.20. Frozen Bubble employs a lot of C and Perl hacks to cover up for SDL Perl's lacking. This will help in a sense fast forward the code status to 2008. Since Frozen Bubble is helping us out, we can go one step forward and help it out! <br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">So Alias (Adam Kennedy) and I have started work on making Frozen Bubble CPAN accessible. Frozen Bubble is a well know game and making it cross-platform will bring lots of attention and hopefully contributions to SDL Perl.<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">In Alias's <a href="http://use.perl.org/%7EAlias/journal/39701">earlier post</a> about this he mentioned about making a splash and some other stuff. I will talk about how and where we will be accomplishing this task. <br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">First we will be tracking Frozen Bubble on the new <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki">SDL Perl Trac website</a>. This site will be similar to Padre's Trac site. As a bonus for people looking to help out in SDL Perl I have separated tasks by <i>perceived </i>difficulty. This will help to breakdown harder task too.<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">For example for Frozen Bubble the two major bumps we have run into so far are:<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">Migrating the SDL Perl workarounds: <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/ticket/3">Ticket #3</a><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">Making the Build System Portable: <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/ticket/7">Ticket #7</a><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">The first one will be difficult as it involves XS. So I will break it down into easier tasks with specific instruction which can then hopefully be picked up by interested contributers. The second one there is sort of a forte of Adam so I will leave it up to him. This is the process I am proposing make hard tickets, break them down.<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">This will generate a lot of easy tickets that will hopefully be synchronized. If you are interested in this please give me a shout on #sdl irc.perl.org or the mailing list at sdl-devel@perl.org and I will get you registered.<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">--yapgh<br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
+A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />
+but will some effort,<br />
+A rolling rock will run!<br />
+</i><br />
+</div><br />
+In the past week the SDL Perl team has been busy! This is what we have accomplished<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<h3>Commitment to Testing!</h3>In an effort to focus on continuing our focus on testing we have setup a <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx:8080/app/public_projects/smoke_reports/1">Smolder</a> site for the SDL redesign process. Currently we have two platforms (linux, windows32) regularly tested on here. If there are more people following the redesign process and would like to share their test results; contact us at sdl-devel@perl.org and we will provide access to you.<br />
+<br />
+<h3>SDL::Video</h3>For the core development most of the focus has been on redesigning around the Video category of the SDL perl API. As of now we are <a href="http://bit.ly/2ar7bK">50% done</a>. 19 functions out of 38 functions have been implemented and tested. <br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<h3>Site Redesign + Migration</h3>On the end of the spectrum, Froggs has been hard at work on the <a href="http://froggs.de/sdlperl/">graphical design </a>of the site. More over with mst's help we will soon be migrating to http://sdl.perl.org. <br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<h3>Documentation</h3>Moreover this week we have seen an increase effort from magnet on the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commits/redesign">SDL docs</a>. Kudos!<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<h3>SWIG Experimentation</h3>Finally <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commits/swig">Katrina</a> has begun looking into SWIG as alternative for SDL in the future.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-5353247044730007101?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-HackFest: Results
+The Future and Beyond!
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>The beautiful sunset,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>is no match for,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>the ugly sunrise<br />
-</i><br />
-</div><h1>Results</h1>On Sunday we had a hackfest on #sdl irc.perl.org. This is what we got done.<br />
-<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SsEsVovCs8I/AAAAAAAAABw/5wMJtyamCpo/s1600-h/sdl-tetris-osx.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SsEsVovCs8I/AAAAAAAAABw/5wMJtyamCpo/s320/sdl-tetris-osx.png" /></a><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>I do not think about awesomeness...<br />
+I just am awesomeness<br />
+n.n<br />
+--<a href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/sdl/2009-10-20#i_1620287">KatrinaTheLamia</a></i><br />
</div><br />
+<h3>Updates</h3>Since the last post SDL Perl has seen an increase of interest to both use and contribute to SDL Perl. Before I dig into the updates, I would like to acknowledge them.<br />
+<h3>Core Development</h3><b>Acme (<a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Eacme/journal/">Leon Brocard</a>):</b> Has started to work on the Redesign Effort with me. The help is much appreciated! Enjoy your vacation. <br />
+<br />
+<h3>Website and Windows Testing</h3><b>FROGGS (Tobias Leich):</b> Came in as a new user to SDL Perl. And after breaking the redesigned SDL Perl in as many ways possible he has decided to help out on the new site. <br />
+<br />
<br />
-<ol><li>MacOSX build is working again. It's still rough but Tetris works on it now. dngor++</li>
-<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/SDL-Tutorial-Tetris-0.015/">SDL::Tutorial::Tetris</a> is on CPAN as v0.15. nferraz++</li>
-<li><a href="http://github.com/m4gnet/SDL_perl/commit/9957e76f888ac71a911e3a71c2783141748d2387">SDL Perl docs</a> are a little better now. magnet++</li>
-<li>Finally experimental <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/experimental">Rect and Game::Rect</a> are behaving. There is still more work needed in Game::Rect. Moreover there are more tests on the experimental release. garu++</li>
-<li>Also POGL is <a href="http://sdlperl.pastebin.com/f78b8c1b9">working</a> experimentally with SDL. <br />
-</li>
-</ol>Hopefully I can get the first three results into the next release soon. The next release 2.2.3 will go up as a developmental release first. Also the experimental branch is going up as version 2_4.<br />
+<h3>Last Legacy Release</h3><br />
+Ok! Now this weekend hopefully we will release our last legacy release, after this we move on! This release will focus on showing of SDL + Perl possibilities.<br />
+<h3>Pong + SDL::Game::Rect</h3><a href="http://onionstand.blogspot.com/">garu</a> has been working on making SDL object extensions that provide a more perly way to use and play with the SDL bindings. To demonstrate the benefits of this SDL::Tutorial::Pong is done and being polished up. SDL::Game::Rect is a peek in to the design and vision we have for SDL down the road.<br />
+<h3>Design</h3>The design we have settled on for future release for SDL Perl can be broken in to two layers, SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. Previously the SDL Perl library tried to provide C bindings and provide Perl Idiomatic access. This was messy in regards to the single responsibility principle (do one thing and do it well).<br />
<br />
-<h1>Developers</h1>All developers please tell me what to put you guys want to be put down as on the <br />
-in the Docs for the SDL Perl Team section.<br />
+We have decided to separate these two focuses into the two name spaces SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. SDL::* will provide straight access to SDL's C API, nothing less and nothing more. SDL::Game::* will extend and make pretty unicorns for Perl. <br />
<br />
---yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-8724981068699019715?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+This design has already begin to pay of. One major benefit been in the XS <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commit/20f544ea4f3e7b34c68445aba89ed9c69d411ddf">readability</a>. Moreover since structs are treated as objects, Perl manages their destruction, and deliver less memory leaks.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4327446497206876141?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Updates, Falling Block Game, and Hack Fest
+The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>Silent but active,<br />
-Small but deadly. <br />
-</i><br />
-</div><br />
+<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 />
<br />
-<h3>Updates</h3>Ok so my blog posts have gone down a bit due to me using my fingers for coding. We have started to get some updates to SDL docs so that good. Also some of the tutorials are shaping up. This is what I have been hacking this past week.<br />
+</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 />
<br />
+<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 />
<br />
+<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 />
<br />
-<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
-</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SrmNTm9UkKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/S0XNvXsp9u4/s1600-h/tetris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SrmNTm9UkKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/S0XNvXsp9u4/s320/tetris.jpg" /></a><br />
-</div><br />
<br />
+<h3>Before</h3><br />
+SDL::Rect->new( -x => 0, -y => 0, -width => 0, -height => 0);<br />
<br />
+<h3>After</h3><br />
+SDL::Rect->new(0, 0, 0, 0);<br />
<br />
-You can grab the <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL">code</a>. Note you will have to install deps yourself. Read the README file. It is not a tutorial yet, because it was hacked together in ~50 hours. But it playable now. During building this I found out that MacOSX (and Snow Leopard) has died again.<br />
-<br />
-<h3>Hackfest</h3>So with dngor's help this sunday (27/09/09) we will have a hackfest to fix MacOSX support. Anyone with a MacOSX and wants to help is welcome on <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl">#sdl irc.perl.org</a>. We will also try to fix up a lot of docs and the tutorial for a early next week release. Also if we can we will migrate to the new site.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7382145297295717151?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+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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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Thanks nothingmuch, and updates
+Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>struggle,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>live,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span id="goog_1253289394523"></span><span id="goog_1253289394524"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>cease,</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>die</i><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
-</div><div style="text-align: left;">After a struggling with XS and opaque C structs in the experimental SDL::Rect for a long time. <a href="http://blog.woobling.org/2009/09/hackathon-summary.html">Nothingmuch </a>comes along and solves my problem with this beautiful module<a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Enuffin/XS-Object-Magic-0.02/"> XS::Object::Magic</a>. So I will start moving my ugly XS to Magic Land.<br />
-<br />
-<b>SDL Perl Tutorials</b><br />
-<br />
-This past week I have been working on the sorry state of SDL Perl tutorials. Currently I am working on a <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL">Tetris Clone</a>. I am hoping to have it done by next Thrusday for TPM meeting. This tutorial is a mix of several tutorials I <a href="http://ezide.com/games/writing-games.html">found online</a>. Another <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/2009/09/msg1446.html">Lunar Lander tutorial</a> has been submitted by Nelson Ferraz.<br />
-<br />
-If anyone has any really good tutorials for game development (regardless of language) or even request of tutorials. Send it my way I will look into them.<br />
-<br />
-<b>New SDL Perl site</b><br />
-<br />
-Also we have begin work on a new site. It is still needs work. <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/">New Site</a>.<br />
-<br />
-<i>--yapgh</i> <br />
-<br />
-<br />
-</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1314526975514787247?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>A single drop,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>causes the ocean to swell</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">So 5 weeks ago, SDL Perl was broken. It had been for several years. After the last release SDL Perl works ... somewhat. The quick releases that you have seen have been work-arounds, fixes and refactoring. This is not bad for a few weeks of work but, there is a point where code smell and technical debt is too huge to fix with out redesigning. This is that point.<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">Since the redesigning will take time and effort it will be good to have a leg up. This leg up is Frozen Bubble 2.20. Frozen Bubble employs a lot of C and Perl hacks to cover up for SDL Perl's lacking. This will help in a sense fast forward the code status to 2008. Since Frozen Bubble is helping us out, we can go one step forward and help it out! <br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">So Alias (Adam Kennedy) and I have started work on making Frozen Bubble CPAN accessible. Frozen Bubble is a well know game and making it cross-platform will bring lots of attention and hopefully contributions to SDL Perl.<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">In Alias's <a href="http://use.perl.org/%7EAlias/journal/39701">earlier post</a> about this he mentioned about making a splash and some other stuff. I will talk about how and where we will be accomplishing this task. <br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">First we will be tracking Frozen Bubble on the new <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki">SDL Perl Trac website</a>. This site will be similar to Padre's Trac site. As a bonus for people looking to help out in SDL Perl I have separated tasks by <i>perceived </i>difficulty. This will help to breakdown harder task too.<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">For example for Frozen Bubble the two major bumps we have run into so far are:<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">Migrating the SDL Perl workarounds: <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/ticket/3">Ticket #3</a><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">Making the Build System Portable: <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/ticket/7">Ticket #7</a><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">The first one will be difficult as it involves XS. So I will break it down into easier tasks with specific instruction which can then hopefully be picked up by interested contributers. The second one there is sort of a forte of Adam so I will leave it up to him. This is the process I am proposing make hard tickets, break them down.<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">This will generate a lot of easy tickets that will hopefully be synchronized. If you are interested in this please give me a shout on #sdl irc.perl.org or the mailing list at sdl-devel@perl.org and I will get you registered.<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">--yapgh<br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1296050942449452224?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div class="blog">
<h1 id="NAME">
-Design of SDL::Rect
+HackFest: Results
</h1>
<div class="CONTENT">
-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
-you say things,<br />
-I hear,<br />
-but don't listen,<br />
-<br />
-you show things,<br />
-I see,<br />
-but don't understand,<br />
-<br />
-you write things,<br />
-I read,<br />
-but don't know.<br />
-</i></div><br />
-Lately we have been working on cleaning up the XS name spaces of SDL perl. After some bumps and falls we came up with a separated Rect module. Rect is one of the most simple C struct as shown below. <br />
-<br />
-<script src="http://gist.github.com/185940.js">
-</script><br />
-<br />
-Using the awesome <a href="http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DMR/CookBookB-19960430/perlobject.map">perlobject.map</a> as a reference I was able to create a <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/a1b835c168ec184abc01edbc01862ffa15624c26/lib/SDL/Rect.pm">blessed perl</a> object in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/a1b835c168ec184abc01edbc01862ffa15624c26/src/Rect.xs">XS</a>. So now SDL::Rect->new(...) gave us a blessed reference ready to go. And as an icing it would destroy itself properly no matter where it was used. But once I brought it into our existing code base, garu pointed out the extending it was a little bit of a mess. So far to extend Rect we have to something like below. Any comment or advice would be much appreciated.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<script src="http://gist.github.com/185938.js">
-</script><br />
-<br />
-<br />
-Have at it I am a big boy. You can grab the code like this.<br />
-Only If you don't already have a local git repo:<br />
-<br />
-<blockquote>mkdir SDL<br />
-cd SDL<br />
-git init .</blockquote><br />
-Then do this or skip to this if you already have a local git repo<br />
-<blockquote>git pull git://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl.git experimental</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3340771783563950133?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>The beautiful sunset,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>is no match for,</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>the ugly sunrise<br />
+</i><br />
+</div><h1>Results</h1>On Sunday we had a hackfest on #sdl irc.perl.org. This is what we got done.<br />
+<br />
+<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SsEsVovCs8I/AAAAAAAAABw/5wMJtyamCpo/s1600-h/sdl-tetris-osx.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SsEsVovCs8I/AAAAAAAAABw/5wMJtyamCpo/s320/sdl-tetris-osx.png" /></a><br />
+</div><br />
+<br />
+<ol><li>MacOSX build is working again. It's still rough but Tetris works on it now. dngor++</li>
+<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/SDL-Tutorial-Tetris-0.015/">SDL::Tutorial::Tetris</a> is on CPAN as v0.15. nferraz++</li>
+<li><a href="http://github.com/m4gnet/SDL_perl/commit/9957e76f888ac71a911e3a71c2783141748d2387">SDL Perl docs</a> are a little better now. magnet++</li>
+<li>Finally experimental <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/experimental">Rect and Game::Rect</a> are behaving. There is still more work needed in Game::Rect. Moreover there are more tests on the experimental release. garu++</li>
+<li>Also POGL is <a href="http://sdlperl.pastebin.com/f78b8c1b9">working</a> experimentally with SDL. <br />
+</li>
+</ol>Hopefully I can get the first three results into the next release soon. The next release 2.2.3 will go up as a developmental release first. Also the experimental branch is going up as version 2_4.<br />
+<br />
+<h1>Developers</h1>All developers please tell me what to put you guys want to be put down as on the <br />
+in the Docs for the SDL Perl Team section.<br />
+<br />
+--yapgh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-8724981068699019715?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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-<h1>Documentation (latest development branch)</h1><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Core</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/SDL_thumb.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL.html">SDL</a></td><td>- Simple DirectMedia Layer for Perl</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Credits.html">SDL::Credits</a></td><td>- Authors and contributors of the SDL Perl project</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Time.html">SDL::Time</a></td><td>- An SDL Perl extension for managing timers</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Audio</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Audio.html">SDL::Audio</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for Audio</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-6-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-AudioCVT.html">SDL::AudioCVT</a></td><td>- Audio Conversion Structure</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-6-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-AudioSpec.html">SDL::AudioSpec</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL::AudioSpec</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">CDROM</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-CDROM.html">SDL::CDROM</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for the CDROM device</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-CD.html">SDL::CD</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_CD</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-CDTrack.html">SDL::CDTrack</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_CDTrack</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Events</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-6-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Events.html">SDL::Events</a></td><td>- Bindings to the Events Category in SDL API</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Event.html">SDL::Event</a></td><td>- General event structure</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Joystick</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Joystick.html">SDL::Joystick</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for the Joystick device</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Mouse</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mouse.html">SDL::Mouse</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for the Mouse device</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cursor.html">SDL::Cursor</a></td><td>- Mouse cursor structure</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Version.html">SDL::Version</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_Version</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Video</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/Video_thumb.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Video.html">SDL::Video</a></td><td>- Bindings to the video category in SDL API</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Color.html">SDL::Color</a></td><td>- Format independent color description</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Overlay.html">SDL::Overlay</a></td><td>- YUV Video overlay</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Palette.html">SDL::Palette</a></td><td>- Color palette for 8-bit pixel formats </td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-PixelFormat.html">SDL::PixelFormat</a></td><td>- Stores surface format information</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Rect.html">SDL::Rect</a></td><td>- Defines a rectangular area</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Surface.html">SDL::Surface</a></td><td>- Graphic surface structure.</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-VideoInfo.html">SDL::VideoInfo</a></td><td>- Video Target Information </td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Cookbook</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cookbook.html">SDL::Cookbook</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cookbook-PDL.html">SDL::Cookbook::PDL</a></td><td></td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Extension</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-App.html">SDL::App</a></td><td>- a SDL perl extension</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">GFX</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-Framerate.html">SDL::GFX::Framerate</a></td><td>- framerate calculating functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-Primitives.html">SDL::GFX::Primitives</a></td><td>- basic drawing functions</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-FPSManager.html">SDL::GFX::FPSManager</a></td><td>- data structure used by SDL::GFX::Framerate</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Image</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Image.html">SDL::Image</a></td><td>- Bindings for the SDL_Image library</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Mixer</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer.html">SDL::Mixer</a></td><td>- Sound and music functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Channels.html">SDL::Mixer::Channels</a></td><td>- SDL::Mixer channel functions and bindings</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Effects.html">SDL::Mixer::Effects</a></td><td>- sound effect functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Groups.html">SDL::Mixer::Groups</a></td><td>- Audio channel group functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Music.html">SDL::Mixer::Music</a></td><td>- functions for music</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Samples.html">SDL::Mixer::Samples</a></td><td>- functions for loading sound samples</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-MixChunk.html">SDL::Mixer::MixChunk</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_MixChunk</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-MixMusic.html">SDL::Mixer::MixMusic</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_MixMusic</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Pango</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Pango.html">SDL::Pango</a></td><td>- Text rendering engine</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Pango-Context.html">SDL::Pango::Context</a></td><td>- Context object for SDL::Pango</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">TODO</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-MPEG.html">SDL::MPEG</a></td><td>- a SDL perl extension</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-6-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-OpenGL.html">SDL::OpenGL</a></td><td>- a perl extension</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-SMPEG.html">SDL::SMPEG</a></td><td>- a SDL perl extension</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">MultiThread</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-MultiThread.html">SDL::MultiThread</a></td><td>- Bindings to the MultiThread category in SDL API</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-RWOps.html">SDL::RWOps</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings to SDL_RWOPs</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">GFX</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-BlitFunc.html">SDL::GFX::BlitFunc</a></td><td>- blitting functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-ImageFilter.html">SDL::GFX::ImageFilter</a></td><td>- image filtering functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-Rotozoom.html">SDL::GFX::Rotozoom</a></td><td>- rotation and zooming functions for surfaces</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">TTF</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-TTF.html">SDL::TTF</a></td><td>- True Type Font functions (libfreetype)</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-TTF-Font.html">SDL::TTF::Font</a></td><td>- Font object type for SDL_ttf</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Tutorials</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Tutorial.html">SDL::Tutorial</a></td><td>- introduction to Perl SDL</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Tutorial-Animation.html">SDL::Tutorial::Animation</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Tutorial-LunarLander.html">SDL::Tutorial::LunarLander</a></td><td>- a small tutorial on Perl SDL</td></tr></table></div>
+<h1>Documentation (latest development branch)</h1><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Core</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/SDL_thumb.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL.html">SDL</a></td><td>- Simple DirectMedia Layer for Perl</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Credits.html">SDL::Credits</a></td><td>- Authors and contributors of the SDL Perl project</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Time.html">SDL::Time</a></td><td>- An SDL Perl extension for managing timers</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Audio</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Audio.html">SDL::Audio</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for Audio</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-AudioCVT.html">SDL::AudioCVT</a></td><td>- Audio Conversion Structure</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-AudioSpec.html">SDL::AudioSpec</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL::AudioSpec</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">CDROM</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-CDROM.html">SDL::CDROM</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for the CDROM device</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-CD.html">SDL::CD</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_CD</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-CDTrack.html">SDL::CDTrack</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_CDTrack</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Events</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Events.html">SDL::Events</a></td><td>- Bindings to the Events Category in SDL API</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Event.html">SDL::Event</a></td><td>- General event structure</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Joystick</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Joystick.html">SDL::Joystick</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for the Joystick device</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Mouse</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mouse.html">SDL::Mouse</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for the Mouse device</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cursor.html">SDL::Cursor</a></td><td>- Mouse cursor structure</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Version.html">SDL::Version</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_Version</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Video</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/Video_thumb.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Video.html">SDL::Video</a></td><td>- Bindings to the video category in SDL API</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Color.html">SDL::Color</a></td><td>- Format independent color description</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Overlay.html">SDL::Overlay</a></td><td>- YUV Video overlay</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Palette.html">SDL::Palette</a></td><td>- Color palette for 8-bit pixel formats </td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-PixelFormat.html">SDL::PixelFormat</a></td><td>- Stores surface format information</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Rect.html">SDL::Rect</a></td><td>- Defines a rectangular area</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Surface.html">SDL::Surface</a></td><td>- Graphic surface structure.</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-VideoInfo.html">SDL::VideoInfo</a></td><td>- Video Target Information </td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Cookbook</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cookbook.html">SDL::Cookbook</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cookbook-OpenGL.html">SDL::Cookbook::OpenGL</a></td><td>- Using SDL with OpenGL</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-6-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Cookbook-PDL.html">SDL::Cookbook::PDL</a></td><td></td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Extension</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDLx-App.html">SDLx::App</a></td><td>- a SDL perl extension</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">GFX</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-Framerate.html">SDL::GFX::Framerate</a></td><td>- framerate calculating functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-Primitives.html">SDL::GFX::Primitives</a></td><td>- basic drawing functions</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-FPSManager.html">SDL::GFX::FPSManager</a></td><td>- data structure used by SDL::GFX::Framerate</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Image</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Image.html">SDL::Image</a></td><td>- Bindings for the SDL_Image library</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Mixer</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer.html">SDL::Mixer</a></td><td>- Sound and music functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Channels.html">SDL::Mixer::Channels</a></td><td>- SDL::Mixer channel functions and bindings</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Effects.html">SDL::Mixer::Effects</a></td><td>- sound effect functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Groups.html">SDL::Mixer::Groups</a></td><td>- Audio channel group functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Music.html">SDL::Mixer::Music</a></td><td>- functions for music</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-Samples.html">SDL::Mixer::Samples</a></td><td>- functions for loading sound samples</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-MixChunk.html">SDL::Mixer::MixChunk</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_MixChunk</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Mixer-MixMusic.html">SDL::Mixer::MixMusic</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_MixMusic</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Pango</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Pango.html">SDL::Pango</a></td><td>- Text rendering engine</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-5-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Pango-Context.html">SDL::Pango::Context</a></td><td>- Context object for SDL::Pango</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">TODO</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-MPEG.html">SDL::MPEG</a></td><td>- a SDL perl extension</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-SMPEG.html">SDL::SMPEG</a></td><td>- a SDL perl extension</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">MultiThread</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-MultiThread.html">SDL::MultiThread</a></td><td>- Bindings to the MultiThread category in SDL API</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-RWOps.html">SDL::RWOps</a></td><td>- SDL Bindings to SDL_RWOPs</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">GFX</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-4-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-BlitFunc.html">SDL::GFX::BlitFunc</a></td><td>- blitting functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-3-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-ImageFilter.html">SDL::GFX::ImageFilter</a></td><td>- image filtering functions</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-GFX-Rotozoom.html">SDL::GFX::Rotozoom</a></td><td>- rotation and zooming functions for surfaces</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">TTF</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-TTF.html">SDL::TTF</a></td><td>- True Type Font functions (libfreetype)</td></tr></table><table style="margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Structure</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-TTF-Font.html">SDL::TTF::Font</a></td><td>- Font object type for SDL_ttf</td></tr></table><br /><table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px"><tr><td colspan="3"><strong style="font-size: 14px">Tutorials</strong></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-1-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Tutorial.html">SDL::Tutorial</a></td><td>- introduction to Perl SDL</td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-7-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Tutorial-Animation.html">SDL::Tutorial::Animation</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="assets/bubble-2-mini.png" alt="thumb" /></td><td><a href="SDL-Tutorial-LunarLander.html">SDL::Tutorial::LunarLander</a></td><td>- a small tutorial on Perl SDL</td></tr></table></div>
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-<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore">SDL 2.4</a> is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)</p>
+<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore">SDL 2.5</a> RC is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)</p>
<p>SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API.</p>
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=head3 CPAN Release
-L<SDL 2.4|http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore> is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)
+L<SDL 2.5|http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore> RC is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)
SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API.
-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: API</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: API</h1><div><a href="blog-0004.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Building</h1><div><a href="blog-0007.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Building</h1><div><a href="blog-0010.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Design</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Thanks nothingmuch, and updates</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 18 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Tutorial.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Tutorial]</a></span><br /> struggle, <br /> live, <br /> cease, <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">Design of SDL::Rect</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 12 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />you say things,<br />I hear,<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Design</h1><div><a href="blog-0004.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Docs</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">Updates, Falling Block Game, and Hack Fest</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Silent but active,<br />Small but deadly. <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Docs</h1><div><a href="blog-0004.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Example</h1><div><a href="blog-0014.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Example</h1><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: EyeCandy</h1><div><a href="blog-0005.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: EyeCandy</h1><div><a href="blog-0008.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Frozen Bubble</h1><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Frozen Bubble</h1><div><a href="blog-0005.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: GSOC</h1><div><a href="blog-0004.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: GSOC</h1><div><a href="blog-0007.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Game</h1><div><a href="blog-0008.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Game</h1><div><a href="blog-0011.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: HackFest</h1><div><a href="blog-0022.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: HackFest</h1><div><a href="blog-0025.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: PDL</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 29 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-PDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[PDL]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />responsive animations and simulations.<br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Pack</h1><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Packaging</h1><div><a href="blog-0003.html">SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 14 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Packaging.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Packaging]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of SDLpp.pl . The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />Here is the shooter.pl packaged up:<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Perl</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a></span><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">Updates, Falling Block Game, and Hack Fest</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Silent but active,<br />Small but deadly. <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Thanks nothingmuch, and updates</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 18 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Tutorial.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Tutorial]</a></span><br /> struggle, <br /> live, <br /> cease, <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">Design of SDL::Rect</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 12 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />you say things,<br />I hear,<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Perl</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 29 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-PDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[PDL]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />responsive animations and simulations.<br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 14 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Packaging.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Packaging]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of SDLpp.pl . The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />Here is the shooter.pl packaged up:<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0008.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a></span><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Releases</h1><div><a href="blog-0007.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0009.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Releases</h1><div><a href="blog-0010.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL Perl EyeCandy</h1><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Eye Candy</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 24 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-SDL-Perl-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl EyeCandy]</a></span><br /> <br /> clang <br />With each imperfect hit <br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL Perl EyeCandy</h1><div><a href="blog-0009.html">Eye Candy</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 24 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-SDL-Perl-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl EyeCandy]</a></span><br /> <br /> clang <br />With each imperfect hit <br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL Perl</h1><div><a href="blog-0005.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL Perl</h1><div><a href="blog-0008.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0008.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0009.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a></span><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">Updates, Falling Block Game, and Hack Fest</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Silent but active,<br />Small but deadly. <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Thanks nothingmuch, and updates</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 18 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Tutorial.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Tutorial]</a></span><br /> struggle, <br /> live, <br /> cease, <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">Design of SDL::Rect</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 12 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />you say things,<br />I hear,<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 29 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-PDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[PDL]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />responsive animations and simulations.<br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 14 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Packaging.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Packaging]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of SDLpp.pl . The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />Here is the shooter.pl packaged up:<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">SDL Perl Documentation: Reviewers need</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 26 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The written word, <br />survives; <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Migrating Sol's Tutorial of SDL to SDL_Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 15 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Newton <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a></span><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Why and How Frozen Bubble is going to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 02 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A single drop, <br /> causes the ocean to swell <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">HackFest: Results</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 28 September 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-HackFest.html" style="font-size: 10px">[HackFest]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The beautiful sunset, <br /> is no match for, <br /> the ugly sunrise<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Showcase</h1><div><a href="blog-0005.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Showcase</h1><div><a href="blog-0008.html">SDL Perl Showcase</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 12 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL_Mixer and Effects <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Sneak Preview</h1><div><a href="blog-0016.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a></span><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Sneak Preview</h1><div><a href="blog-0019.html">Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 11 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Sneak-Preview.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Sneak Preview]</a></span><br /> Any code that is not marketed is dead code <br />--mst <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Surface</h1><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: TPM</h1><div><a href="blog-0008.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: TPM</h1><div><a href="blog-0011.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Updates</h1><div><a href="blog-0010.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0019.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: Updates</h1><div><a href="blog-0013.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> Short and Sweet <br /> <br />Had an exam on the weekend so I am a bit late. Here is the progress so far. <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Development Update</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 02 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> <br />A stoic stone will sit idle, <br />but will some effort,<br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 11 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br /> “Do or do not... there is no try.” <br /> --yoda <br /> The design before <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: XS</h1><div><a href="blog-0010.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: XS</h1><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 13 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Once in a while <br />Things just work! <br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: games</h1><div><a href="blog-0019.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0019.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: games</h1><div><a href="blog-0022.html">The Future and Beyond!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 24 October 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-games.html" style="font-size: 10px">[games]</a></span><br /> I do not think about awesomeness...<br />I just am awesomeness<br />n.n<br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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