native array methods added to OpenGL binding(gljava)

2005-09-16T22:18:57Z

Greetings!

I've added native array access methods for all the methods which previously took NIO Buffers as a parameter. These methods can now be used instead of NIO buffers where appropriate.

Cheers,
-Ivan/

guichan port checked into CVS

2005-05-27T02:47:08Z

I've integrated the guichan port coded by Rainer Koschnick. Thanks Rainer!

Guichan is a small, efficient C++ GUI library designed for games. It comes with a standard set of widgets and can use several different objects for displaying graphics and grabbing user input.

http://guichan.sourceforge.net

GLU support added to gljava(opengl) binding

2005-03-24T01:31:50Z

I've happy to announce that GLU support has been added to the opengl binding. Its is fully implemented _except_ for functions which involve a callback.
- gluNurbsCallback
- gluNurbsCallbackData
- gluNurbsCallbackDataEXT
- gluQuadricCallback
The rest of the functions are all available.
- gluTessCallback

sdljava-0.9.1 released!

2005-02-20T21:56:46Z

Greetings,

I'm happy to announce the next release of sdljava - sdljava-0.9.1

sdljava is a java binding to the SDL API. This release includes many
new features. The major changes were the removal of the dependency on
JDK 1.5 and the addition of the OpenGL binding via GLEW
(http://glew.sourceforge.net) and a binding to FTGL
(http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/#FTGL).

Also a new developer has joined the team: Bart LEBEOUF bartleboeuf at
yahoo.fr. Bart has helped create the build environments on the
windows side as well many additions in various places in the codebase.

I hope you find this usefull. Please send any questions to the
mailing list.

-Ivan/

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Changes:
* added jniclasscode pragma's to swig interface (.i) files which call
System.loadLibrary for the appropriate lib. Now there is no need to
call System.loadLibrary explictly from code which utilizes sdljava

* added new methods to SDLMixer (SDLMixer version requirement is still
1.2.5)
public static MixChunk loadWAV(Buffer buf) throws SDLException
public static MixChunk loadWAV(byte[] data) throws SDLException
public static MixChunk loadWAV(URL url) throws SDLException, IOException, MalformedURLException
public static MixChunk loadWAV(InputStream in) throws SDLException, IOException

public static MixMusic loadMUS(Buffer buf) throws SDLException {
public static MixMusic loadMUS(byte[] data) throws SDLException
public static MixMusic loadMUS(URL url) throws SDLException, IOException, MalformedURLException
public static MixMusic loadMUS(InputStream in) throws SDLException, IOException

* added new methods to SDLImage
public static SDLSurface load(Buffer buf) throws SDLException
public static SDLSurface load(byte[] data) throws SDLException
public static SDLSurface load(URL url) throws SDLException, IOException, MalformedURLException
public static SDLSurface load(InputStream in ) throws SDLException, IOException

* JDK 1.5 enumerations removed. Any existing code which used these
enumerations needs to be slightly modified. Please see tests for
examples of how to use.

* CDStatus.java is no longer a JDK 1.5 enumeration
* SDLGrabMode.java is no longer a JDK 1.5 enumeration
* SDLAppState.java is no longer a JDK 1.5 enumeration
* SDLEventAction.java is no longer a JDK 1.5 enumeration
* SDLEventState.java is no longer a JDK 1.5 enumeration
* SDLKey.java is no longer a JDK 1.5 enumeration
* SDLEvent.java
method eventState now takes an int for the event type
method getKeyName now takes an int
method getType now returns an int

* ALL JDK 1.5 dependencies removed. JDK 1.5 is no longer required!!

* OpenGL 1.1 Support added!!!
* new methods on SDLSurface getGL() and glSwapBuffers() to access

* BufferUtil.java changed readInputStream() so that when it created
the ByteBuffer to ordering is set to the native byte order.

* SDLSurface added mustLock() method

* BufferUtil.java: integrated patch from Robert Schuster
<theBohemian at gmx.net> which fixed the problem of loading byte
streams from URLs over the network. Thanks Robert!

* SDLSurface added ByteBuffer getPixelData() method which returns
direct byte buffer for pixel data access! Removed
get/setPixelDataXXXX() methods

* FTGL binding added (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/#FTGL).
Font support is now available for OpenGL binding. Check out FTGLTest example code.

* Moved gljava and ftgl build to src/org/gljava/opengl/native directory

* Added ability to disable automatic loading of shared library.
Specify -Dsdljava.bootclasspath=true (or any value) to the java vm
and no shared libraries will be loaded.
Thanks to Stphane Meslin-Weber <steph at tangency.co.uk> for the
suggestions.

* added org.gljava.opengl.model package to faciliate dealing with 3D
model data. Also added gljava_export.py blender export script which
exports xml format file which can be imported by XMLModelLoader in
same pacakge. (there is much to be done here stil...)

* added DebugGL for debug pipeline support. Please see source file
for documentatin.

* Changed methods in SDLGfx which took short[] to take ShortBuffer
instances instead. Note: these methods are currently not working.

* added version API; SDLMain.getSDLVersion(), SDLMixer.getMixVersion(), SDLTTF.getTTFVersion()

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Required/Recommended Libraries: (higher version should be fine)

- Java 1.4
- SDL 1.2.7

- GLEW 1.3.1 (http://glew.sourceforge.net) for OpenGL Support (optional)
- FTGL 2.1.3 (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/#FTGL) for FreeType font Support w/OpenGL (optional)

- SDL_image 1.2.3 (optional)
- SDL_mixer 1.2.5 (optional)
- SDL_ttf 2.0.6 (optional)
- SDL_gfx 2.0.13 (optional)

- Ant 1.6.2 (optional, only if you need want to compile
java sources)
- SWIG 1.3.22 (optional, only if you want to re-generate
native layer)
- Ruby 1.8.2 (optional, only if you want to re-generate
SOME of native layer)

OpenGL 1.1 support added (CVS)

2005-01-22T01:32:04Z

I've checked in code into CVS which adds an opengl 1.1 binding to sdljava!! Later version of OpenGL coming soon.

The binding is provided by wrapping GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net). GLEW is a library which handles all the specifics of the OpenGL support. GLEW is available for a vast number of platforms.

Currently I've only updated the linux Makefile to build the shared library (gljava). It should be trivial to compile under Windows if the same idea if followed as the linux Makefile. I will be updating the Windows scripts in the future.

Two new methods were added to SDLSurface:
public GL getGL() throws SDLException
- will return an instance of GL interface IF the surface has SDL_OPENGL set. The surface must be a framebuffer surface and must have been initialize with SDL_OPENGL

public void glSwapBuffers()
- will swap the OpenGL buffer

There are also two (simple) example of how to use it in: testsrc/org/gljava/opengl directory

Finally I have created a seperate sourceforge project for the binding called: gljava (gljava.sourceforge.net). The idea is that I want to provide a generic opengl binding for java that does not depend on sdl. The gljava project will offer this.

sdljava will always contain the latest gljava code and be distributed with it so sdljava will always provide an opengl binding.

This will be integrated into the next release.

Thanks. Please let me know any feedback.

-Ivan/

sdljava 0.9.0 released

2004-12-30T00:46:36Z

Hello everyone,

I'm happy to announce the release of sdljava 0.9.0! sdljava is a
binding to the SDL API for java.

You can find it here:
http://sdljava.sourceforge.net

sdljava provides a complete binding to all the SDL API functions.
Almost the entire binding has been implemented. Please see the TODO
for a list of what is still pending.

Required/Recommended Libraries: (higher version should be fine)

- Java 1.5
- SDL 1.2.7

- SDL_image 1.2.3 (optional)
- SDL_mixer 1.2.5 (optional)
- SDL_ttf 2.0.6 (optional)
- SDL_gfx 2.0.13 (optional)
- Ant 1.6.2 (optional, only if you need to compile
sdljava.jar)
- ruby 1.8.2 (optional, only if you want to re-generate
native layer)
- SWIG 1.3.22 (optional, only if you want to re-generate
native layer)

Please let me know any questions, comments or feedback. I hope you
will find this useful!

Regards,
-Ivan/

Development is progressing well, release is coming soon!

2004-12-24T17:59:03Z

Release is coming very soon now

Video, Event and Mixer bindings complete!

2004-12-18T03:49:02Z

The bindings for the Video, Event and Mixer are essentially complete! There are a few functions missing here and there. I will post a summary on the project page once I've made the new html pages.

Have a look in testsrc for examples how to use the various SDL functions.

Release coming soon!!

SWIG adopted for native interface generation!

2004-12-10T02:50:29Z

I have adopted SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) to generate the mapping layer between C/C++ and Java!

The means that all the native code used to wrap the SDL Library is automatically generated from simple swig (.i) interface files!

This is already working for the video module and I have just confirmed that it works with the Event module as well.

Excellent news as it simplifies the job to bind the SDL to Java. It should be possible to have a release up and available within weeks.

Project is born!

2004-11-24T01:32:04Z