- Added new custom launch screen code. It uses the launch screen nib when available on iOS 8+, the launch images dictionary if the launch screen nib isn't available, and the old standard image names if the launch image dictionary isn't in the plist.
The launch screen is now hidden during the first call to SDL_PumpEvents rather than SDL_CreateWindow so apps can have the launch screen still visible if they do time-consuming loading after creating their window. It also fades out in roughly the same way as the system launch screen behavior.
It can be disabled by setting the SDL_IPHONE_LAUNCHSCREEN define in SDL_config_iphoneos.h to 0.
- A blank UIView is now created and displayed when the window is first created. The old behavior was to defer creating any view until SDL_GL_CreateContext, which prevented rotation, touch events, and other windowing-related things from working until then. This also makes it easier to use SDL_GetWindowWMInfo after creating a window.
- Moved the keyboard and animation callback code from SDL's UIView subclasses to its UIViewController subclass, which lets them work properly in all cases when a SDL window is valid, even before SDL_GL_CreateContext is called and after SDL_GL_DeleteContext is called.
- SDL_GL_CreateContext, SDL_GL_SwapWindow, SDL_GL_MakeCurrent, and SDL_GL_DeleteContext are more robust.
- Fixed some edge cases where SDL windows weren't rotating properly or their reported sizes were out of sync with their actual sizes.
- Removed all calls to [UIApplication setStatusBarOrientation:]. It doesn't seem to work as expected in all cases in recent iOS versions.
- Some code style cleanup.
Previously, SDL would always expose display modes and window dimensions in terms of pixels, and would add an extra 'fake' display mode on retina screens which would contain the non-retina resolution. Calling SDL_CreateWindow with the dimensions of that fake display mode would not work.
Now, SDL only exposes display modes and window dimensions in terms of points rather than pixels. If the SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI flag is passed into SDL_CreateWindow, then any OpenGL contexts created from that window will be sized in pixels rather than points (retrievable with SDL_GL_GetDrawableSize.) Window dimensions and mouse coordinates are still in terms of points rather than pixels even with that flag.
This matches the behavior of SDL in OS X more closely, and lets users choose whether to make use of retina displays and lets them handle it properly.
Alex Szpakowski
Since this commit https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/59b543340d63 , calling SDL_DestroyWindow will crash the program if the window has an active OpenGL context.
This is because the Cocoa_DestroyWindow code sets the window's driverdata to NULL and then calls [context setWindow:NULL], which tries to access the window's driverdata, resulting in a null pointer dereference.
I have attached a patch which fixes the issue by moving the line which sets the driverdata to NULL to after the lines which call functions that use the driverdata pointer.
Alex Szpakowski
Now that SDL for iOS requires at least iOS 5.1 at runtime, there are several old codepaths in the UIKit backend which can be removed. I've attached a patch which does so.
