SDL_CreateWindowFrom

Hi all,

I would like to create an SDL window inside a Qt widget. I think that the SDL 1.3/2.0 function SDL_CreateWindowFrom would be the way to go, but I have not found any tutorials or documentation that confirm this…

Thus, before I spend a couple of hours trying to figure it out, is there someone that’s tried this before, and is SDL_CreateWindowFrom the way to go, or is it not possible to have an SDL Window inside of a Qt Widget?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Matthias–
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Yeah, SDL_CreateWindowFrom should work.? That’s what I used to embed a SDL window inside a Delphi widget.

Here’s the basic concept:

Create a very simple widget that does as little as possible.? What you needis a rectangular area with a handle of the sort that SDL_CreateWindowFrom expects.? (On Windows, this is a HWND handle.? Not sure about other OSes.)
Your widget should have an event or virtual method that is guaranteed to fire when the OS creates the handle because it needs to draw to the screen.? This is the place where you put the call to SDL_CreateWindowFrom: immediately after the handle has been created.? Likewise, destroy the SDL window immediately before the handle is cleaned up.
Your widget should have an event or virtual method that is guaranteed to fire when the OS needs to repaint it.? Expose this as an event handler so the developer can decide how to repaint properly.

That’s the basic concept for creating it.? There’s probably more you should do, adding basic texture-management and drawing capabilities into the widget object, but that’s what you need to get started.? Here’s my implementation, for reference:

http://code.google.com/p/turbu/source/browse/trunk/components/TURBU/sdl_frame.pas________________________________
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Subject: [SDL] SDL_CreateWindowFrom

Hi all,

I would like to create an SDL window inside a Qt widget. I think that the SDL 1.3/2.0 function SDL_CreateWindowFrom would be the way to go, but I have not found any tutorials or documentation that confirm this…

Thus, before I spend a couple of hours trying to figure it out, is there someone that’s tried this before, and is SDL_CreateWindowFrom the way to go, or is it not possible to have an SDL Window inside of a Qt Widget?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Matthias

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Hi All

I am looking for simple example to use SDL_CreateWindowFrom() , I have
found testnativex11.c,
Is there simple example that uses SDL_CreateWindowFrom with testnativex11.c
and can save it to BMP? Also Do I need to use OpenGL?

ThankYou