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General discussions / Should I go from SDL to SFML?

« on: August 31, 2010, 02:41:54 pm »

Sorry for the doublepost.
I may have misread the documentation of SFML but I didn't find any clipping method for a sprite/image in drawable or the 2 mentionned classes.
Is it named differently?

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General discussions / Should I go from SDL to SFML?

« on: August 31, 2010, 10:54:27 am »

Thank you very much for your answers that I'm taking in consideration.
I'm doing some last tests and SFML doc read before changing (or not).
Actually, for the pixels, i don't need to change them, just to get the rgba values  : )
As Laurent said it is possible so it's good news!

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General discussions / Should I go from SDL to SFML?

« on: August 26, 2010, 12:37:40 pm »

Hello everybody!

First of all congrats for the people working on SFML, the library seems very nice. I'm on windows 7 but I saw that with some DLL's it would run on so I guess it's okay ; ) .

I am currently working on a 2D project in C/C++ with SDL and i was wondering to change to SFML since i read some benchmark stuff, and it's oriented object.

The problem for me is not the speed of the library but the weight and the different methods available:

>> I read somewhere that sf::Image is a heavy class, does this mean that I can't load many pictures on the screen? Or maybe I didn't understand  correctly what did you mean.

>>Are there any methods to extract a pixel from a picture (virtual or not (displayed or not)) and get the R,G,B,Alpha values like SDL_GetRGB does?

>>Is the blitting method (with clip etc.) and the key-event management work close to what SDL was doing?

>>Would you suggest me really to change my implementation and go from SDL to SFML? (since it'll require some time to reorganize all the stuff!)

I just passed through the documentation so I'm not that informed yet : ).

Regards