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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:26:43 +0000 (GMT) Gordon Henderson wrote:Maybe not the best place to ask, but has anyone done any ultra simple cross platform 2D graphics coding? I'm trying to resurect something I did on the Apple II, er... 31 years ago and although I'm re-writing the program in C, I need to be able to plot pixels in a window.. The old Apple II was 280x192, but that's not critical here. I've briefly looked at things like QT, GTK+, OpenGL and even native raw, X, but while I'm probably going to opt for the simplest (Native X), I'd like it to be more cross platform - should I ever be bothered enough to go there. (ie. Mac + WinPC) I'm rather dissapointed in just how "hard" it is to do really simple olde-fashioned graphics. Ok, it's not hard as such, but it's many times more involved than it was 30 years ago when all I want is clear screen, select colour & plot a point... (Bonus to draw a line, but Bresenham's an old friend) What happened to good old simplicity! Of-course I could (and I have considered it!) just create an XTerm 280x192 characters and use termcap/curses ;-) but I'd rather use "proper" graphics.. So ... Anyone ever done this? If so, what do you think is best for simplicity and cross platform? I suspect the solution I'll opt for will be to separate the graphics from anything else so if I ever do make it cross platform, I just re-write the end-platform graphics driver. Who knows! Cheers, GordonSDL?
Ah. Hmm.. Looks intersting... Thanks.Download the C demo program. Compile it. OK. Run it. Bang. Killed X, Lost 9 virtual screens worth of work including the BBC News Quiz Panto. Not amused. Now, even Jeremy Hardy sounds good.
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