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From:
Sam Lantinga <...>
Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Subject: [SDL] SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf PRE-RELEASE!
To:
sdl@xxxxxxxxxxPlease thoroughly test these PRE-RELEASE versions, and report bugs to bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/
Thanks to everybody who contributed feedback and patches for this release!
SDL_image:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_image-1.2.8.tar.gz
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_image-1.2.8.zip
CHANGES:
* Added support for uncompressed PCX files
* Added IMG_Init()/IMG_Quit() to prevent constantly loading and unloading DLLs
* Added support for ICO and CUR image files
* Added ImageIO loading infrastructure for Mac OS X
* Added UIImage loading infrastructure for iPhone / iPod Touch
SDL_mixer:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_mixer-1.2.9.tar.gz
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_mixer-1.2.9.zip
CHANGES:
* MOD support uses libmikmod and is dynamically loaded by default
* A patched version of libmikmod is included in libmikmod-3.1.12.zip
* Added TIMIDITY_CFG environment variable to fully locate timidity.cfg
* Implemented seamless looping for music playback
* Temporarily disabled native MIDI on Mac OS X since the APIs are not
available on 10.6. The long term solution is to implement native MIDI
using CoreAudio APIs.
* ID3 files are now recognized as MP3 format
* Fixed native MIDI crash on 64-bit Windows
* Added decoder enumeration API:
Mix_GetNumChunkDecoders(), Mix_GetChunkDecoder(),
Mix_GetNumMusicDecoders(), Mix_GetMusicDecoder()
* Added support for FLAC audio both as chunks and streaming
* Added support for streaming WAV files with Mix_LoadMUS_RW()
* Fixed crash caused by not resetting position_channels
SDL_ttf:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_ttf-2.0.10.tar.gz
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_ttf-2.0.10.zip
CHANGES:
* Added API to disable kerning: TTF_GetFontKerning()/TTF_SetFontKerning()
* Fixed height calculation for fonts that extend below the font height
* Added access to font hinting: TTF_GetFontHinting()/TTF_SetFontHinting()
* Added TTF_GlyphIsProvided() to check whether a glyph is in a given font