SDL 2.0.0 is out after many years in development

Post by angersock » Tue, Aug 13, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

wtallis wrote: post #49

angersock wrote: post #17

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#include int main(void) { GLFWwindow* window; if (!glfwInit()) return -1; window = glfwCreateWindow(640, 480, "Hello World", NULL, NULL); if (!window) { glfwTerminate(); return -1; } glfwMakeContextCurrent(window); while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) { /* Render here */ glfwSwapBuffers(window); glfwPollEvents(); } glfwTerminate(); return 0; } VS #include #include /* Our program's entry point */ int main(int argc,…

That doesn't show that GLFW is simpler than SDL. It just shows that GLFW has some simple defaults. How much complexity is added to the GLFW code if you want to require a minimum GL version and depth buffer size? Or a fulllscreen window?

      window = glfwCreateWindow(640, 480, "Hello World", glfwGetPrimaryMonitor(), NULL);

  glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_VERSION_MAJOR, 3);
  glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_VERSION_MINOR, 2);
  glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_DEPTH_BIT, 24);

Post by aktau » Tue, Aug 13, 2013, 6:36 PM UTC

telephonetemp wrote: post #37

If I start a new multimedia project today and aim to support the widest range of devices should I use this version of SDL or 1.x?

Post by dkersten » Tue, Aug 13, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Post by thecodemonkey » Tue, Aug 13, 2013, 8:27 PM UTC

Post by eropple » Wed, Aug 14, 2013, 12:21 AM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #28

angersock wrote: post #25

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Hey, no reason to get snippy--you asked "Isn't SDL the simplest, most portable way to use OpenGL?", and asserted that it's a smaller library. I showed you a still-smaller alternative, and even dug up code to substantiate that point. There's nothing wrong with using SDL for making a game (well, maybe a couple of things, but that's not relevant here), but it simply isn't the smallest GL scaffolding library out there.

Heh, you're right, I got a little snarky. Sorry :-P But I got bit by half-assed "GL" ways of doing things before. SDL has everything, in layers, so you can grow into it. Unlike "portable GL" libraries which are discrete, isolate dead-ends.