Anyone using Delphi XE# with SDL 2.0?
Anyone using Delphi XE# with SDL 2.0?
After a stressful fight against FireMonkey to allow me direct access to TBitmap I've realized that the solution for what want is SDL 2.0
I think this is the most recent updated and maintained headers conversion :
https://github.com/ev1313/Pascal-SDL-2-Headers
(While JEDI-SDL isn't updated since 2008)
I'm using Delphi XE3, if you have any experince usind SDL 2 or a suggestion for better library wrapper would be very welcomed!
Thanks!
https://github.com/ev1313/Pascal-SDL-2-Headers
After a stressful fight against FireMonkey to allow me direct access to TBitmap I've realized that the solution for what want is SDL 2.0
I think this is the most recent updated and maintained headers conversion :
https://github.com/ev1313/Pascal-SDL-2-Headers
(While JEDI-SDL isn't updated since 2008)
I'm using Delphi XE3, if you have any experince usind SDL 2 or a suggestion for better library wrapper would be very welcomed!
Thanks!
https://github.com/ev1313/Pascal-SDL-2-Headers
Which kind of application do you plan to write? Why is SDL better suited than FireMonkey?
ReplyDeletebtw: Firemonkey had many improvement since XE3. It is growing fast. You should update your XE3 to XE5, taking a maintenance contract to get updates for an interesting fixed price.
Mainly 2D games with thousands of animated sprites, image processing, real-time simulations...
ReplyDeleteAfter my research I think SDL 2.0 is more mature mufti-platform framework for games and low level graphics, while Firemonkey still need a lot of improvement; has lot of bugs and slow performance ( https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=85426 -- )
I was giving an opportunity to FMX ;) But it can't give me something that simple like a surface or texture buffer in system memory for direct pixel access They just decide to limit TBitmap.PixelFormat to read-only, then I can't work with 32bits pixel routines without format conversion, as I always did before with VCL.
Also SDL give me easy solutions for Fullscreen handling, input (keys, mouse, joystick) , sound/music playback... and more..
Anyway I'm planning to benchmark 2D graphics both sides to make a fair comparison.
Finally, some one could say me I'm in the "wrong" language&IDE for game developing but I love Delphi and I still believe in its potential :D beyond databases.