I’m completely reorganizing the surface/video/windowmanager interfaces
so that it’s easier to port and extend.
Big rewrite. 
Aside from that, which shouldn’t change the API significantly, there are
a few other tidbits:
New functions available in SDL_timer.h:
SDL_StartTicks()
SDL_GetTicks()
SDL_SetAlpha() takes a new flag parameter, which can be one of:
0, SDL_SRCALPHA, SDL_SRCALPHA|SDL_MULACCEL
I’ll announce it when it’s done.
Also, I will probably be changing the acronym from SDL to SML to avoid
a conflict with another graphics library already out there. Any other
cool acronyms?
I’m completely reorganizing the surface/video/windowmanager interfaces
so that it’s easier to port and extend.
Big rewrite.
Hehehe… Don’t you hate it when you spend a long time getting something
working, then later on, you realise that you could’ve done it in a better
way…
Also, I will probably be changing the acronym from SDL to SML to avoid
a conflict with another graphics library already out there. Any other
cool acronyms?
SDML… then you’ll get hits to your WWW site from people who can’t spell
another 4 letter acronym
Michael Samuel,
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WWW: http://www.surfnetcity.com.au/~michael/On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Big rewrite.
Hehehe… Don’t you hate it when you spend a long time getting something
working, then later on, you realise that you could’ve done it in a better
way…
Actually, no… as long as I get it right the next time.
SDML… then you’ll get hits to your WWW site from people who can’t spell
another 4 letter acronym
Heh.
Also, I will probably be changing the acronym from SDL to SML to avoid
a conflict with another graphics library already out there. Any other
cool acronyms?
Um… SML is widely (?) known to mean Standard ML, a (and I
quote) “safe, modular, strict, functional, polymorphic programming
language with ompile-time type checking and type inference, garbage
collection, exception handling, immutable data types and updatable
references, abstract data types, and parametric modules”.
More information seems to be available at
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/smlnj/index.html
All in all, SML might not be a good acrynom.
/EmilOn Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Also, I will probably be changing the acronym from SDL to SML to avoid
a conflict with another graphics library already out there. Any other
cool acronyms?
MXP, RQS, PDH, ARX, ZXQ
basically has to have at least 1 X,Z,Q or M.
Or you could go for the GrOoVy capitalisation, a common name such as Game
Gears or ImmediateX or random #H&!! (!)
njhOn Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Um… SML is widely (?) known to mean Standard ML,
All in all, SML might not be a good acrynom.
/Emil
Hum, there seems to be a shortage of good acronyms in this world.
How about SDML?
BTW, if you delete a file and want to recover it, don’t run a compiler
or vi right afterwards. Doh!
Um… SML is widely (?) known to mean Standard ML,
All in all, SML might not be a good acrynom.
/Emil
Hum, there seems to be a shortage of good acronyms in this world.
How about SDML?
I guess about 99,6% of the sentient population will assume that to be
some variant of a mark-up language… Perhaps “standardized dynamic
mark-up language”? Or maybe it’s just me being paranoid.
/EmilOn Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:
Hum, there seems to be a shortage of good acronyms in this world.
How about SDML?
Heh… As I said before… people may get it confused with a typesetting
language with a similar acronym
BTW, if you delete a file and want to recover it, don’t run a compiler
or vi right afterwards. Doh!
Hehehehe… You can recover the swap file from the editor or the tmp file
from the compiler though
Michael Samuel,
Surf-Net City - Internet Cafe and Internet Service Providers
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WWW: http://www.surfnetcity.com.au/~michael/On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:
[Re: SDML as an acronym for the Simple DirectMedia Layer]
Heh… As I said before… people may get it confused with a typesetting
language with a similar acronym
Yeah, ok. So, any ideas?
Hehehehe… You can recover the swap file from the editor or the tmp file
from the compiler though
Not if you did:
vi SDL_sysmouse.h
:!rm SDL_video.c
DOH!!!
I think I rewrote it though.
At least, it seems to work. grin