SDL mutiple windows question

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i cant quite remeber why i wanted to do this but i thought i’d ask anyways…

i dont know much about the planned feature of multiple windows for sdl, but will
it be possible to have a main window, and then perhaps in an L shape another
window off to the side that would be linked (as in gui wise) to the other
window so when the main window moves around the second window remains at the
same orientation.?

also will windows be capable of being dynamically created, for such things as
pop up menus and such.

if anyone can point me to any related proposal articles i would be interested to
see what is planned.

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i cant quite remeber why i wanted to do this but i thought i’d ask anyways…

i dont know much about the planned feature of multiple windows for sdl, but will
it be possible to have a main window, and then perhaps in an L shape another
window off to the side that would be linked (as in gui wise) to the other
window so when the main window moves around the second window remains at the
same orientation.?

Using SDL 1.3 you can create multiple rectangular windows. What you do
with those windows is up to you. There is no plan, and on desire, to put
any sort of a GUI into SDL. It will be possible to build a GUI on top of
SDL 1.3. So the answer to your last question is that it is entirely up
to you.

also will windows be capable of being dynamically created, for such things as
pop up menus and such.

YES!

if anyone can point me to any related proposal articles i would be interested to
see what is planned.

Down load the code and read the .h files in the include directory. You
can also use doxygen to extract the docs from those files. That is the
best source of information at this time.

	Bob PendletonOn Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:47 +0100, neil at cloudsprinter.com wrote:

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Down load the code and read the .h files in the include directory. You
can also use doxygen to extract the docs from those files. That is the
best source of information at this time.

(PRERELEASE)
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.zip

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