simple display (from: GUI library for D)

[Cliff Hudson]

Yeah, I'm certainly not suggesting you necessarily rip off implementation,
just possibly API design.  But to be fair it has been a while since I used
that API - maybe the design is crap by comparison to others these days.
 OpenGL or DirectX for quick rendering is definitely the way to go under the
covers.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:50:11PM -0700, Cliff Hudson wrote:
> > So is the objective to create a windowing library, or a drawing library
> for
> > (for example) games?
>
> Drawing. I have a windowing library in the works too, but it's much much
> more effort (even building off existing ones!) so it won't be ready to
> share
> for a long time still.
>
> > If you are building a drawing library, I'd definitely co-opt an existing
> one
> > (SDL would be a good place, in particular since its license seems
> favorable
> > and the API is well known.)
>
> I actually find SDL's drawing facilities to be almost useless... in my D1
> game lib, even doing NES type games, I found it was simply too slow and
> redid the graphics with OpenGL.
>
> It's image loaders and sound/music parts are good though.
>
> > I don't know if it is popular with
> > this crowd, but Microsoft DirectX or the XNA Framework might be a good
> place
> > to go for pattern ideas as well.
>
> I've heard good things about XNA, but I've never used it...
>
>
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