[SDL] SDL 1.3 roadmap...

[Stephen Anthony]

On October 7, 2007 7:16:25 pm Andre Krause wrote:
> Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>  >- A basic API to read/write from the system clipboard would be
>  > nice. - A basic API to support drag'n'drop with the system would
>  > be nice. - Probably other stuff! Let Ryan know what you want!
>
> if you add a basic API for clipboard stuff, i also would like to see
> a ver basic api - merely just a function
>
> bool open_url(const char* url);
>
> wich opens the url-string in the systems default browser. this is
> definitely a thing that comes handy for most apps and is also a thing
> that needs an abstraction via SDL because every platform handles this
> completely differently.

Yes, this would be very nice.  I'd also request to add something like in 
the SDL scrap demo.  Basically just being able to copy and paste text 
would be fine for most people; copying and pasting images would be more 
problematic, I think.

Steve