Re: [TuxKart-devel] Some notes

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

 Let me throw my 2 cents about this SDL issue.

Em Segunda, 2 de Agosto de 2004 03:00, o James Gregory escreveu:
> As for the issues with not using SDL:
>
> 1. No fullscreen mode
 --fullscreen is working fine here. Does it have problems in some systems?

 About the no possibility of using a size different than screen size, Steve 
said there shouldn't be any performance decrease. And I haven't noticed any 
either.

> 2. GUI-wise being limited to using what plib provides
 I believe it is as rich as ClanLib GUI module and other GUI libraries.

 But even if we decide to do a custom GUI code, can't we use its image and 
text capabilities?

> 3. Being limited in terms of file formats to what plib provides (e.g. no
> use of png, no use of physfs)
 About PNGs, isn't JPEG supported? If yes, should be used. Files are even 
smaller with it.

 About physfs, isn't that a physics library? If yes, wasn't it decided that it 
would be better to make a home made physics.

> 4. Far more people know how to program using SDL and its sister
> libraries than know how to use plib
 Well, those people already knew TuxKart used Plib and there was no opposition 
regarding that.
 Besides, Plib is pretty small and I guess they already had time to learn, at 
least, the basics.

> 5. Everyone who ever compiles games already has SDL, SDL_image etc in
> any case
>
 Why not linking to Allegro, ClanLib - you name it - as well.
 "Everyone who ever compiles games already" have those. ;D

Sorry for anything stupid,

 Ricardo

> 	James
>
>

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