Hi All,
I’m trying to compile a couple of different SDL apps (both normally
compiled in unix environments) using the 1.2.7 SDL framework under
Mac OS X. I’m using Makefiles, not XCode. The applications seem to
compile fine, and when run in full-screen mode everything works fine,
however when run in a window something goes wrong. The window appears
properly, but it appears behind the Terminal window from which I
launched the app… and keyboard events still seem to go to that
Terminal, rather than the SDL application. I’ve tried clicking on the
SDL app and it comes to the front, but the title-bar of the window
doesn’t take on the “active application” appearance (the Terminal
window retains it, even though it is now behind the SDL window) and
it still doesn’t get the keyboard events (they still go to the
Terminal.)
I have noticed that if I bundle the compiled program up into a
standard MacOSX Application bundle (a “.app”) and launch it from the
Finder everything works properly. This is OK for one of the programs,
but the other one has command line arguments, so I don’t want to be
launching it from the Finder.
Do I need to change something in the SDLMain.m file I am using? I’m
just using the standard one from the “SDL Application” template.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Hi All,
I’m trying to compile a couple of different SDL apps (both normally
compiled in unix environments) using the 1.2.7 SDL framework under
Mac OS X. I’m using Makefiles, not XCode. The applications seem to
compile fine, and when run in full-screen mode everything works fine,
however when run in a window something goes wrong. The window appears
properly, but it appears behind the Terminal window from which I
launched the app… and keyboard events still seem to go to that
Terminal, rather than the SDL application. I’ve tried clicking on the
SDL app and it comes to the front, but the title-bar of the window
doesn’t take on the “active application” appearance (the Terminal
window retains it, even though it is now behind the SDL window) and
it still doesn’t get the keyboard events (they still go to the
Terminal.)
I have noticed that if I bundle the compiled program up into a
standard MacOSX Application bundle (a “.app”) and launch it from the
Finder everything works properly. This is OK for one of the programs,
but the other one has command line arguments, so I don’t want to be
launching it from the Finder.
Do I need to change something in the SDLMain.m file I am using? I’m
just using the standard one from the “SDL Application” template.
It could be an older version of SDLMain.m that is causing the problem
(there was an issue at one point with keyboard focus that was resolved
over a year ago I believe). Try using the code from cvs (run
./configure; make; make install and link to -lsdl and -sdlmain on the
commandline.> From: Steven Saunders <s_j_nevets at yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [SDL] Mac OS X Keyboard Events Not getting to SDL app in