[SDL] SDL & MFC

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Fri Oct 4 22:53:01 PDT 2002


> Hello,

> I am looking for information on how to setup SDL to display in the client 
> area of an MFC app.

> I am using SDL in a DLL to display images. It works fine in my win32 
> project, but now I need it to work in an MFC app.

> I have attempted to use SDL_WINDOWID but it does not seem to work. I still 
> get a windowed SDL surface separate from the main app. Here is the code I 
> use before I init SDL and set the video.


> char buff[100];
> char buff2[100];
> sprintf(buff,"%s","SDL_WINDOWID=");
> sprintf(buff2,"0x%08x%",m_pMainWnd->GetSafeHwnd());

Did you mean to put the second %?
As far as I can tell you're doing the right thing.  Can you debug the SDL
library to make sure it's seeing the environment variable?

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




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