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-My milestones (itches) for gaming in Perl
+Once in a while .... (set_event_filter)
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><br /><blockquote><blockquote><i>As a young sprout in spring, </i><br /><i>the soil is moist,</i><br /><i>and the sun bright. </i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>But as fall comes,</i><br /><i>with fading leaves,</i><br /><i>my roots keep me standing. </i></blockquote></blockquote></div><br /><br /><br />As a new Perl developer I am able to contribute with <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commits/">great enthusiasm</a> due to the <a href="http://www.irc.perl.org/">great community</a> and the fancies of the language. However I know that these things will fade and I will need something else to take the place. Usually what has worked for me in the past was to set milestones. These will act as roots, keeping me interested in being involved. After all in words better than mines.<br /><blockquote><i>We all “scratch our own itches”. It’s why I started Linux, it’s why I started git, and it’s why I am still involved. --<a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html">Linus</a><br /></i></blockquote><br />So here are my evolving milestones for Gaming in Perl:<br /><ul><li> Make Tetris,Pong, so on [soon-ish]<br /></li><ul><li>Hack it until its Perly (shows the power Perl can provide for games) </li></ul><li>Do game-a-thon [Starting January 2010]<br /></li><ul><li>Simply</li><ul><li> Get two random words (Warp + hole = portal)<br /></li><li> Make a small game</li><li>Every week for 52 weeks</li></ul></ul><li>Use the results from this to make some Perl specific tools [Parallel to game-a-thon]<br /></li><ul><li>SDL::Game </li></ul></ul>--signed YAPGH<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-215619435826309735?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div></div></div>
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+Once in a while <br />
+Things just work! <br />
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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 />
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+<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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