SDL2: How to keep aspect ratio when resizing the window - c++

Question

I am trying to create a SDL window which keeps its aspect ratio when resize event happens. If user widens the window, the height is increased and vice versa. I catch the SDL_WINDOWEVENT_RESIZED event, calculate new width or height which maintains the aspect ratio and then call SDL_SetWindowSize() with calculated values.
The problem is that calling the SDL_SetWindowSize() function inside the event polling loop does nothing on the screen. SDL does update the window size variables (calling SDL_GetWindowSize() in my main loop returns the updated window dimensions). However, the actual window is not updated.
The only way I can get this to work is to call constantly SDL_SetWindowSize() in the main loop, but I think that is the wrong way of doing things. The code below illustrates my problem. Is there a better and cleaner way to get this to work?
I am using SDL 2.0.3 and 64-bit Ubuntu Linux with GNOME desktop.
#include <SDL2/SDL.h>
static const float ASPECT_RATIO = 16.f/9.f;
SDL_Window* window;
SDL_Renderer* renderer;
uint32_t windowID;
SDL_Rect screen;
bool done = false;
bool resizeDone = false;
void handle_events()
{
SDL_Event e;
while (SDL_PollEvent(&e)) {
switch (e.type) {
case SDL_WINDOWEVENT:
if(e.window.windowID == windowID) {
switch(e.window.event) {
case SDL_WINDOWEVENT_RESIZED: {
int width = e.window.data1;
int height = e.window.data2;
float aspectRatio = (float)width/(float)height;
if(aspectRatio != ASPECT_RATIO) {
if(aspectRatio > ASPECT_RATIO) {
height = (1.f / ASPECT_RATIO) * width;
}
else {
width = ASPECT_RATIO * height;
}
printf("Setting window size to %d, %d, aspect ratio: %f\n",
width, height, (float)width/(float)height);
}
screen.w = width;
screen.h = height;
SDL_SetWindowSize(window, width, height); // <-- does not work
resizeDone = true;
break;
}
}
}
break;
case SDL_QUIT:
done = true;
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
void run() {
while(!done) {
//SDL_SetWindowSize(window, screen.w, screen.h); // <-- works
handle_events();
SDL_RenderClear(renderer);
SDL_RenderPresent(renderer);
if(resizeDone) {
int w, h;
SDL_GetWindowSize(window, &w, &h);
printf("SDL_GetWindowSize: %d, %d\n", w, h);
resizeDone = false;
}
}
}
int main(int, char**) {
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
uint32_t window_flags = SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN | SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI | SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE;
window = SDL_CreateWindow("Test", SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, 1280, 720, window_flags);
windowID = SDL_GetWindowID(window);
renderer = SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, 0);
SDL_SetRenderDrawColor(renderer, 255, 0, 0, 255);
run();
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Some window managers seems to ignore resize requests made while WM itself resizes window (e.g. while mouse button held). On contrary, SDL_GetWindowSize returns cached values, which in that specific case sometimes happens to be wrong.
I see no platform-independent way to achieve that, other than constantly calling SDL_SetWindowSize on each frame, just in case. It could be achieved using platform-specific APIs, though (like SDL_GetWindowSysWMInfo and then using Xlib).

Answer 2

On macOS, I have solved it like this:
cocoa.m:
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
void SetWindowRatio(void *window) {
NSWindow *win = (__bridge NSWindow*) window;
win.aspectRatio = NSMakeSize( 1280, 720 );
}
main.cpp:
#include <SDL.h>
#include <SDL_syswm.h>
extern "C" void SetWindowRatio(void *window);
// and later..
SDL_SysWMinfo wmInfo;
SDL_VERSION(&wmInfo.version);
SDL_GetWindowWMInfo(sdl.window, &wmInfo);
SetWindowRatio(wmInfo.info.cocoa.window);
Perhaps something similar could be done on Linux, only access different part of wmInfo.info. and call the native function?