[SDL] SDL 1.3 and rendering API state management

[Bob Pendleton]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 22:20 +0200, David Olofson wrote:
> On Monday 04 September 2006 21:07, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
> [...]
> > > You can add all sorts of rendering APIs by simply layering them on
> > > top of the SDL surface structure and blit operations, or you can
> > > go down to the pixel level and do what ever you want to any SDL
> > > surface.  
> > >
> > >   
> > No, as soon as you want to hardware accelerate the new
> > functionality, you have to have a least some hook to the internals.
> > Say, for example the hardware exposes a rotation function that goes 
> > unused by the current SDL code. If you don't want rotation support
> > in SDL itself, but in an external library, you have to do it in
> > software. That's because SDL doesn't expose the hardware's rotation
> > function.
> 
> Right. This was the first problem I ran into: I can't use SDL 
> textures, as I can't get at the OpenGL texture name or Direct3D 
> texture pointer.

Right there you lost me. SDL doesn't have textures. SDL has surfaces.
OpenGL has textures, and you get the texture name when you upload the
surface in OpenGL. I do not understand the situation in which SDL would
hide a texture name from you since SDL does not have textures.

Please explain. I clearly do not understand what you are saying here. 

		Bob Pendleton


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