Hi,
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From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org]
On Behalf Of Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:14 +0100, Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
> > I would like to detect when an SDL application gets iconified. Than I
> > can pause it to save power. In theory the SDL_ACTIVEEVENT should be
> > generated and event.active should give me the info I need however I do
> > not get these type of events.
Note that it's not enough just to use SDL function to wait for events when it's
invisible / idle. SDL does 10Hz polling even when waiting for events which will
drain battery pretty soon. (I filed a bug about that for upstream SDL several
years ago, it's still not fixed, but there's a broken patch available.)
Because of this, in my own SDL code I use select() when the process should
be idle in RAM longer times without draining battery. You can get the SDL X
socket file descriptor like this:
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/**
* Return the X connection socket or zero
*/
static int GetUISocket(void)
{
SDL_SysWMinfo info;
SDL_VERSION(&info.version);
if (!SDL_GetWMInfo(&info)) {
return 0;
}
return ConnectionNumber(info.info.x11.display);
}
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Your program could use something like that also with an an explicit (user
invoked)
pause functionality.
- Eero
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