Hi Harman, Am 03.03.2013 22:51, schrieb Harman: > Hello, > > A little long email, so in the interest of time you could skip directly to > the section marked "Question" in bold below :) > > > *Context:* > Currently using: > SDL Version 1.2 > Platform (Windows for development) > Visual Studio 2010 > * > * > I wanted to create cross platform games on Android/iOS/Windows which is > where I came across SDL. > > I am proficient in unix shell scripting so I initially started out with > learning python pygame as my language for games. Unfortunately I realized > the games are not cross platform and I read about a few folks struggling > online when porting. Lost 2 weeks > > I then started with SDL/C++ ( despite having being warned online against > starting directly on C++). After 3 more weeks of learning SDL modules, > tutorials, videos, I realized the warnings were not out of order :) > > C++ has never been the language of choice for me ( when I studied it in my > degree course). Now it seems its a completely new language and a simple > loop through a list of strings took me a while to code. (something which a > 1 line ls command in unix would do). > > Also today I spent 14+ hours finding a code base on how to render videos > through SDL. ffMPEG, SMPEG on SDL didnt work since everytime there was a > library file version mismatch with the code available online. > > > *Question:* > My 3rd attempt at game programming would be on perl since its again the > closest to bash scripting ( I dont think I can handle C++ anymore ). Would > be great if you could provide some pointers on the following: > > 1) Are games on perl+SDL cross platform? i.e. Android/iOS/Windows Well, there was/is an Android port of Perl, but I don't think it is in a useful state right now. iOS/Windows and Linux shouldn't be a problem though. > 2) How do I best approach learning the 2? as in which documents to read > first for perl followed by SDL-perl tutorials? This should be a good start: https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/raw/master/dist/SDL_Manual.pdf For learning Perl there should be books even in your local Stores :o) > 3) Unrelated: I did not come across touch screen handling in SDL in my > limited study of it. How are the same handled in SDL events? The current SDL library we use will treat touch screens like a normal mouse. But we are currently working on libSDL2 bindings, which is capable of that. > > > Would be great if you could provide some direction on this. Frankly my > brain is scrambled after a decent start with SDL 2 weeks back. > > > Cheers > Harman >
Cheers, Tobias
