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Bindings - other languages => DotNet => Topic started by: itsjustme on April 26, 2018, 10:59:49 pm

Title: Trying sfml 2.2 dotnet - have some beginner questions.
Post by: itsjustme on April 26, 2018, 10:59:49 pm

I need graphics capabilities to allow some animations in windows on a form, so I have some questions.

1. I am using visual basic dotnet. I understand that opentk is used by sfml. Is it ok to skip installing opentk? since sfml uses pre-built libraries internally? I am not doing any serious 3d.

2. I would like to do frame for frame animation. So I have a 640x360 picturebox right now with gdi+ and what I am doing is pasting a background and then I paste animated sprites on top using my custom built SpriteAnimation class. It's very low on performance as you can imagine gdi+, so I would like to rewrite it using sfml. My game is mostly casual adventure gaming. Kind of a graphical text adventure with selection elements. Can sfml handle forms and pictureboxes like this? What would be the best way to set up my gui if I must use windows forms with visual basic.

3. Is there a way with dotnet to play video sequences. I have avi files that I can easily convert to mp4 or some other format. I was wondering if sfml dotnet has any capabilities for this.

4. Just a friendly question at last. Is anyone here developing adventure type games? Do you have examples of your project that I can look at to see how sfml dotnet handles it? I don't need source code, just some video examples like youtube or something.

Thanks

Title: Re: Trying sfml 2.2 dotnet - have some beginner questions.
Post by: Laurent on April 27, 2018, 08:13:23 am

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I understand that opentk is used by sfml

The SFML libraries don't depend on OpenTK. It is only used for examples that require OpenGL calls.

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Can sfml handle forms and pictureboxes like this? What would be the best way to set up my gui if I must use windows forms with visual basic.

As far as I know, you can embed a SFML drawing area into any kind of control. There are many forum posts about it, have a look.

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3. Is there a way with dotnet to play video sequences. I have avi files that I can easily convert to mp4 or some other format. I was wondering if sfml dotnet has any capabilities for this.

No, but there is a SFML-based library that can do it: sfeMovie. However I don't think it has a .Net binding.