Re: SDL (was: Re: SVGALIB on Thinkpad)

[Chris Purnell <cjp@lost.org.uk>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:58:20PM -0500, Steven Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Chris Purnell wrote:
> 
> > I've also tried to program using SDL.  The initial learning curve seems
> > to be very steep.  Worse than OpenGL or even Athena Widgets.  I gave up
> > in the end and used something else (I think it was X lib).
> 
> An example (640x480x8 window):

<example code deleted>

That's the easy bit.  Now clear the window to black and draw a white
line diagonally across the window.

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