From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
To: Elijah Meeks <elijahmeeks@yahoo.com>
Cc: Hans Ronne <hronne@comhem.se>, xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Curses and SDL apps for Windows and MacOS
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B10858.9060909@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040522022743.37494.qmail@web13123.mail.yahoo.com>
Elijah Meeks wrote:
>Hans,
>
>This is my first experience with the SDL interface.
>It seems more smooth than the TCL/TK, is this because
>it only opens the default game or is it just better?
>
Partly because it does less, partly because SDL is
tuned and honed for scrolling.
>It looks great. Yes, I know it's barely there, but it
>looks more like a game interface than TCL/TK, which
>I've hated ever since I played Xconq on a Mac...
>Would it be capable of allowing designers to customize
>the graphics of the interface (The borders,
>backgrounds, etc.) so that the different games will
>have different feels?
>
The plus of SDL is that interfaces built with it will look and feel
a lot more like the usual commercial games, but the minus is that
you don't get *anything* for free; all must be constructed in C
code. Parts of a complete SDL interface will be painful because
you have to have your own widgets, your own artwork, etc, and
you want to make that per-game-module, that's even more work.
There are some widget kits for SDL now I think, they'd come in
handy. So I think it's a direction worth pursuing, but be
prepared to do a lot more grungy GUI hacking.
I actually have a few unchecked-in changes that ought to be in
there so nobody reinvents.
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-23 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-22 0:21 Hans Ronne
2004-05-22 2:27 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-05-22 2:43 ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-22 10:16 ` Hans Ronne
2004-05-22 14:05 ` Hans Ronne
2004-05-22 17:14 ` Elijah Meeks
[not found] ` <1085247112.1485.405.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2004-05-22 17:39 ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-22 19:02 ` Wrecking Revisited Elijah Meeks
2004-05-22 19:13 ` Hans Ronne
2004-06-06 6:11 ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-23 20:23 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2004-05-23 20:37 ` Curses and SDL apps for Windows and MacOS Eric McDonald
2004-05-23 20:45 ` Stan Shebs
2004-05-23 21:02 ` Eric McDonald
2004-05-23 21:28 ` Hans Ronne
2004-05-23 22:42 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-05-23 22:56 ` Hans Ronne
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