[SDL] contribute to wince

[Donny Viszneki]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Stefan Klug <klug.stefan at gmx.de> wrote:
> As noted in my last mail, I'd like to contribute to the WinCe Part of SDL.
> I've still got some questions though.

Contributions are greatly appreciated!

> - How extreme are the changes from 1.2 to TRUNK? Will TRUNK remain mostly
> stable? If the interface wouldn't change radically I would consider
> switching to TRUNK as it seems to make more sense contributing there.

The code in SDL SVN trunk is based on a new API that allows for such
different things as multiple windows/displays, so your suspicions that
you should work on trunk are correct.

> - I'm currently working on some fixes regarding screen orientation under
> wince. Is there already some proposal for a public SDL api to get/set the
> screen orientation? I know this doesn't make any sense on desktop apps, but
> in the growing mobile world I think it definitely would make sense...

Not at all. Plenty of people (like me) have desktop computers with
displays that "pivot" to change the orientation. I believe the right
way to handle this is to issue an SDL_RESIZE event, but I may be
wrong.

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