[haiku-3rdparty-dev] Re: SDL entrant in Haiku
- From: The_Serial_Wombat <the.serial.wombat@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-3rdparty-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:18 -0400
PHilip RUshik wrote:
>> LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM)
Yeah.. that doesn't sound familiar at all. I've never heard of anyone
doing that for SDL programming. SDL takes care of that for you. Using
code like that would decrease its portability, which should be
discouraged. Then again, Micro$oft likes to make it hard to port
Windows software to other platforms, that of course makes it harder
for people to leave Windows. So I wouldn't be surprised if this was
somehow the "suggested" or "preferred" way of setting up SDL in
Windows, that does not make it correct.
SDL is made to be cross platform, and programs using it should
probably be too.
All it really does is give the SDL window a "DC" and a handle so Windows
sees it in a Winmain() context. (API compatibility or something. It has
been a few years since I actually touched any code. Much less windows
stuff.)
Just wanted to know if I had to do that or something like it as a
"preferred" way.
Note: You do not have to do the Winmain() stuff that I had asked about
while using Windows SDL. You can just slap up a "int main(void){
SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_VIDEO ); etc}"
But it is the "preferred way" to open an SDL window.
Just as a test, I think I will try to do just that for Haiku and then
check the processing speed difference.
Thank you for all the help and I am sorry for my lack of verbosity on my
original question.
Sincerely,
Paul W Sturgis
Other related posts:
