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benny7440 · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 305

... someone somewhere gave me the advise to d/l SDL for having those capabilities as to include some special characters anywhere in the screen with an arbitrary orientation: I started many months ago a game that needs the whole screen, putting there at some spots a graphic in one of the possible orientations & changing the background color without loosing any characters or graphics already there.

The problem I had then was caused by myself for deleting everything that included "glade" in its name (blindly). So, I stopped for about 2 months my c program until I managed my mess. Finally I did d/l a newer version of Puppy Linux (528.005) but didn't continued my c program. Now I want to finish it before I completely forget all/most of what I've learned.

I asked more or less the same thing many months ago but failed to receive any replies to it, that post is at: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77874

Where I can go to learn what other/new commands Iĺl have with SDL? Do I need something extra apart from SDL?

Thanks to all!

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

What exactly are you wanting to do? Get cursor position, warp it to a specific location,...? And what other stuff.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 626

The SDL man-pages holds loads of info:

benny7440 · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 305

Thanks, technosaurus & goingnuts, for replying!

My program is for playing dominoes against the "machine' & for that I need an array of graphics to show at the screen; it would not hurt if I could include some sound files there, too.

About the SDL links to visit, that will have to wait until a thunderstorm near my home goes away; probably tonight might be a good moment, sorry... I'll post anything regarding this last thing after reading about it.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

I wrote a really stupid simple game framework in gtk (It compiles to ~2kb) that just draws images, lines, shapes, text ... (anything supported by svg) and returns all locations of mouse clicks and key presses.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80352
I designed it for use with scripting languages like bash, lua, tcl, perl, python etc... but it will work with anything that can read streams (like stdin) and can write files (for instance game.svg) ... should work great for dominoes. If you aren't dead set on SDL, feel free to use it as is or adapt it -- released to public domain or any OSI approved license with no warranty.