[SDL] 1.3 Event source addition

[Torsten Giebl]

Hello !


> I like the event loop of SDL and my only problem with 1.2 series is
> that the Event subsystem is completly hidden and close. There is no way to
> extends this part of the library that I know. It would really interesting
> to be able to register new event source that are triggered by SDL
> automatically.
>
>
> Supposing I am using a networking library like SDL_Net I need to
> construct my program the following
>
>
> begin event loop
>
> while there some SDL event do if event is a mouse event ... if event is a
> keyboard event ... ...
> end
>
> while there some Network event do ...
> end
>
> ...
> end
>
>
> It would be cool to be able to register our own source of event using
> an API call similar to
>
> struct SDLEventSource {
> void (*pushEvents)(void* userdata); void* userdata; };
>
>
> SDL_EventRegisterSource(SDL_EventSource* source);
>
>
> SDL_EventUnregisterSource(SDL_EventSource* source);
>
>
>
> With such call we can integrate in a consistent way user defined event.


Something like that would be really usefull,
for network coding but also other tasks
that needed to be synced in some way.


CU