There is no need to. I made a PDL to SDL_surface work before. And in SDL2 you can create template from surface.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Mason James <m...@kohaaloha.com> wrote: > > On 2013-08-17, at 1:37 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Kartik Thakore > > <thakore.kar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I am definitely interested in helping with this. Perhaps we should make > a > >> test module that tests just these integration. > >> > >> It will get latest branches of the 3 projects and run tests. > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > I'm glad to see the interest but most of the base work > > is still needing to be done as far as the OpenGL stuff. > > We need modern OpenGL support in POGL before a lot of > > the specific development can occur. > > > > However, one important piece that could be investigated > > is how we could make conversion between SDL2 objects > > and PDL objects work. Ideally we could have a fast > > conversion to take a piddle and use it for an SDL2 surface > > or texture or whatever and similarly for the other direction. > > > > Currently, the approach used for SDL is to create the PDL > > object with the right sized data segment and then pass that > > to SDL to make a surface from that. I'm not sure what would > > work for SDL2 stuff. > > > > --Chris > > > hi Chris, > > i was looking at elmex's construder code recently, and noticed that the > passing of an SDL surface to OpenGL was done by dumping the SDL surface to > a BMP temp file (via File::Temp), then loading the BMP with OpenGL. > > obviously this solution is a little slower than others, but... it should > 'just work' without much effort > > we could always use this lazy technique for initial testing, until a more > 'correct' solution is sorted with SDL_Texture :) > > > Mason
