The desired backlight level depends on the amount of light coming in from
the environment, not on the application that is run. Setting the brightness
when launching an application discards what is probably the right value
for this location (indoor/outdoor) and time of day. So we decided that this
is not a desirable feature and therefore removed it.
Instead of having fscanf() read into a string buffer (with the risk of
overflowing it if sysfs returns an unexpectedly long string) and converting
the value to integer with atoi() afterwards, just use fscanf() to read
an integer.
The maximum frequency for applications was set to 430 MHz before,
while some Dingoos can handle higher frequencies. Now the limit is set to
the theoretical maximum frequency of 500 MHz.
For the menu itself the maximum frequency is set to a safer 408 MHz,
to avoid over-eager users from putting their system in an unusable state
that is difficult to recover from.
Also the frequency settings are now done in 24 MHz increments, to match
the limitations of the current JZ4740 kernel. Note that only new entries
are rounded to 24 MHz multiples, existing entries stay as they are.
There was a lot of gp2x-specific code which was built for
all platform. For instance, the code was compiled for all
the platforms with the constant "TARGET_GP2X" defined.
This obviously had to be fixed.
It ensures that GMenu2X can restart after a SDL program segfaulted or crashed.
It also allow GMenu2X to exit without clearing the screen, so that the "loading" screen appears
until the launched binary starts using the framebuffer.
writeSkinConfig() had a very naughty bug when RGBA values were written
to config file unpadded. This lead to a problem that, for example,
0x00000080 was written as 0x00080 in config file (Somehow gmenu2x
reads and re-saves config on selection). This, in turn, led
to problem when reading skin config file in strtorgba function,
because it parses the color string in token of two symbols
(substr(0,2) and etc).
Instead of having the copy constructor convert to display format, the new
copy constructor preserves the pixel format and a separate method was
introduced to convert surfaces to display format.
The code was made more robust as well: it should no longer crash if the
wallpaper cannot be loaded.
I cheated a bit by declaring ASFont as friend, but all other outside
access now happens via methods.
I removed the "saveScreenshot" method since the code calling it is
commented out and I never heard anyone complain about missing this
feature.
If loading fails, the factory method returns NULL, while previously the
constructor would create a Surface object with a NULL "raw" field.
However, since most of the methods dereference "raw" without checking,
such a Surface would likely crash the application when used.
Use real double buffering instead.
I checked the SDL code and if the hardware cannot provide double buffering
it will use a shadow surface to ensure that a frame is not displayed until
it has been fully painted.
Also disable mouse cursor before opening the output surface. The reason it
was disabled after the surface was opened is that SDL on GP2X has a bug.
However, this means the cursor is visible for a short time during startup
which looks ugly.
The unnecessary alpha channel might harm performance but is not a big deal.
However, the fact that the alpha flag (bool) is somehow automatically
converted by C++ into a skin name (string) causes the entire screen to
stay black.
The black screen was fixed by removing the alpha flag.
For optimum blitting performance, the wallpaper surface is then converted
to the pixel format of the frame buffer.
Bug was introduced in 52c89d6005.
There is no point in precalculating something so cheap to recalculate.
Also, the majority of uses was to compensate for passing the wrong alignment argument.
