Gareth Nelson wrote: > I've been pondering why this is not used........ SDL is designed for > being cross-platform, yet the viewer only uses it on linux. If SDL was > used on all platforms instead then it would make certain tasks a lot > simpler (say for example that firefox plugin i've been working on). > > So, before I waste time messing around with this - is there any reason > SDL is not already used for the other platforms?
Linden Lab already had Win32 and OSX LLWindow implementations with which it was happy before the SDL implementation came along - there has never been a clearly positive net gain from switching all platforms to SDL. SDL doesn't handle everything we need from an LLWindow implementation natively, so there would always be platform-specific pieces (to which SDL is at best orthogonal and at worst somewhat obstructive). _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
