[SDL] SDL 1.3 and Menus

[David Olsen]

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Subject: Re: [SDL] SDL 1.3 and Menus


>I think you are pretty of like mind to most people here with some twists 
>here and some six of one and half of a dozen there. The libs at the SDL 
>website are pretty good and at least one of the is made in part by Sam (SDL 
>Sam). I'm happy to take what they did and change it to suit my app and make 
>it my own. The libs cover so much on so many topics that I for one don't 
>even see the point of making the focus of SDL so broad as to include those 
>things in SDL proper.

I'd love to get my hands on the SDL_Sam lib - where can I download it? ;)


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> ---- julien CLEMENT <clementj2005 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> This is only to bring my personal opinion about the idea of Menus in SDL.
> Since the beginning it is clear that it is a "Simple" direct media layer. 
> To my mind, it means both simplicity of usage, the API is quite 
> straightforward (I don't want to revive past discussions about changes on 
> the SDL API), and a limited function set. The philosophy is more to bring 
> about a stable core, and create add on libraries appart.
> Indeed, it'd be quite annoying to impose, for instance, a specific widget 
> system on SDL.
> Also, if I take the case of SDL_image, maybe the most used SDL "add-on", 
> although it is a very quality library, if one wants to read only bitmaps 
> so why imposing all the decoding functions in the core of SDL ?
> So, to conclude, there're libraries having a "all in one" philosophy like 
> Allegro, with a built-in GUI system, and a lot of built-in stuff. I'm not 
> condemning this choice, just highlighting the fact that, until now (I dont 
> know what's planned for the next major), it is not the philosophy of SDL 
> to be a "all in one" library.
>
> I'm interested in other's opinion about that. I hope I'm not out of topic 
> ! :D
>
> Regards,
> Julien.
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