That’s fine with me… but tell me, what does SDL do that libGGI doesn’t?
I’m curious. I’ve looked at the website, and it doesn’t seem to be
anything more than a libggi knockoff
A very good question. First, it was done independently – I was only vaguely
aware of GGI when I wrote the first versions. Second, it’s crossplatform to
Win32 and BeOS. Third, it’s geared more as a complete low-level cross-platform
game development library than a graphics library. Fourth, it gives a bit
better control over the window manager and display format. Fifth it doesn’t
try to be low-level driver, but uses existing high-performace graphics and
audio technologies, like GGI, to give the best performance on each supported
platform. Fifth, it has a simpler and more game-oriented API, IMHO.
I would have said it had asynchronous events, but it looks like those will
be going away. 