lazyfoo-sdl-rust/lesson02/src/main.rs

extern crate sdl2;

use sdl2::pixels::Color;
use sdl2::video::Window;
use sdl2::render::Canvas;
use sdl2::surface::Surface;

use std::time::Duration;
use std::thread::sleep;
use std::path::Path;



// using a different window size than lazyfoo, due to high-density screen
const WIDTH:u32  = 1280;
const HEIGHT:u32 =  960;


// This is all about figuring out what types go where, so that passing
// arguments and return values works properly. We could probably go with
// globals, like the C version, but if so, why use rust anyway?
fn init() -> Canvas<Window> {
    let context = match sdl2::init() {
        Ok(context) => context,
        Err(err)    => panic!("Could not initialize SDL2. Error: {}", err),
    };

    let video = match context.video() {
        Ok(video) => video,
        Err(err)  => panic!("Could not gain access to the SDL2 video subsystem. Error: {}", err),
    };

    let window = match video.window("SDL Tutorial, lesson 01", WIDTH, HEIGHT)
        .position_centered()
        .opengl()
        .build() {
            Ok(window) => window,
            Err(err)   => panic!("Could not create window. Error: {}", err),
        };

    let canvas = match window.into_canvas()
        .build() {
            Ok(canvas) => canvas,
            Err(err)   => panic!("Could not create renderer from window. Error: {}", err),
        };

    return canvas
}


fn load_media(filename:&str) -> Surface {
    // having difficulty with lifetimes. Going to try to use a TextureCreator
    // to get around that problem for now.

    // screw lifetimes (for now). going to just load and return the
    // surface, to get around TextureCreator lifetime restrictions
    let surface = match Surface::load_bmp(&Path::new(filename)) {
        Ok(surface) => surface,
        Err(err)    => panic!("Could not load image: {}", err)
    };

    return surface
}

fn main() {

    let mut canvas = init();


    let surface = load_media("../assets/hello_world.bmp");


    let tc = canvas.texture_creator();

    let texture = match tc.create_texture_from_surface(&surface) {
        Ok(texture) => texture,
        Err(err)    => panic!("Could not slap surface into a texture: {}", err)
    };

    // These are fairly straightforward draw commands.
    // The present() is needed to make the changes visible.
    //
    // keeping these because, hey, why not?
    canvas.set_draw_color(Color::RGB(255,255,128));
    canvas.clear();
    canvas.present();


    // 'copy' takes:
    // - the texture
    // - None or Some(Rect) -- the subrect of the texture (or the whole thing)
    // - None or (not sure) -- if None, stretch to fill the rendering rectangle
    match canvas.copy(&texture, None, None) {
        Ok(())   => (), // no return value == success
        Err(err) => panic!("Could not render texture: {}", err),
    };

    // and now flip the screen buffers again
    canvas.present();


    sleep(Duration::new(2,0));

    // in the original tutorial, there is also a `close()` function which
    // frees up the surface and destroys the window
    // afaict, those are handled by scoping rules in rust, so are
    // unneeded

}