[SDL] Init question

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Sat Mar 30 19:22:00 PST 2002


> Hi there,

> Well I was looking around SDL_Init and SDL_InitSubSystem, and I wondered why 
> we couldn't pass SDL_INIT_NOPARACHUTE to SDL_InitSubSystem. 

> Actually why parachutes deployment should be only init inside SDL_Init() ? 

> Is there any reason to this ? 

The SDL_InitSubSystem() call is an advanced feature, and presumeably
if you are setting everything up yourself you know how to catch and
handle crashes and unexpected exceptions in your program, and don't
want SDL to hold your hand for you.  It's just designed that way as
a convenience.

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment




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