SDL Digest, Vol 16, Issue 36

SDL Development
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Hello,

Well, you see, that is not the issue. I think we should keep dependencies to
minimum. SDL should have it’s own interface. Of course it is a great source
of guidance and I shall analyze tslib, it will be helpful. The other issue
is that tslib works only under Linux. My project concerns also Windows and
FreeBSD. I plan to concentrate on a mainly unified interface for all of
those OS.

Message: 5> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:04:50 -0400

From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: [SDL] Welcome GSoC Students!
To: sdl at lists.libsdl.org
Cc: Szymon Wilczek <@Szymon_Wilczek>
Message-ID: <200804241904.51076.vapier at gentoo.org>
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On Thursday 24 April 2008, Szymon Wilczek wrote:

My name is Szymon Wilczek and I would like to introduce touch input
support
to SDL for this Google Summer of Code.

i thought SDL already supported tslib ?
-mike

–
–Szymon Wilczek

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Well, you see, that is not the issue. I think we should keep dependencies to
minimum. SDL should have it’s own interface. Of course it is a great source
of guidance and I shall analyze tslib, it will be helpful. The other issue
is that tslib works only under Linux. My project concerns also Windows and
FreeBSD. I plan to concentrate on a mainly unified interface for all of
those OS.

tslib will certainly be supported, but a lot of the work will be to
create support in the SDL API for pressure sensitive input devices,
tslib is just one driver level implementation of this. Others might be
XInput, DirectInput, etc.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment