[gameprogrammer] Re: SDL 2.0

Bob Pendleton wrote:

>>The idea is to be able to get a platform-independent offscreen context 
>>(in the rendering meaning)
>>
>
>I don't believe this is something that should be in SDL. I understand
>the need for it, but one of the key ideas in SDL is that SDL doesn't do
>a lot of graphics, it makes it easy to use existing graphics libraries
>to do graphics. I like the idea of having scaled and rotated blits in
>SDL because they complete the 2D support that is already there.
>
So, do you have some features you'd like to have too ? We've been 
talking about my features mostly...
Or directly jump in and discuss the implementation of a scaled/rotated 
blit interface.

Btw, I've found how to achieve the detection of hardware acelerated 
visuals on OSX, so I'll be able to submit a patch on 3 platforms.

Stephane




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