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Hey everyone, In addition to... Lazy Foo's Tutorial http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php "SDL Game Development" - Shaun Mitchell book are there any other recommended resources (does not have to be SDL) people could suggest? I've already created a console-based text adventure game and am really interested in expanding it into a text-adventure game …

Having a hard time trying to wrap my head around why my grid system fails, I'm assuming my train of thought is stuck at the moment(akin to writers block). My understanding of grids is while the current cell isn't the last one in the column/row(w/e is horizontal) /*do stuff*/ then …

I quickly threw together a drawing program in SDL and I am having a couple of issues with lag. The program lags really hard when the size is larger than about 700x700 pixels, and I cannot find anything other than a couple of SDL_BlitSurface calls to the 'image' surface in …

So I was trying out SDL_gfx lib and tryed using the rotozoomSurface() [Click Here](http://www.ferzkopp.net/Software/SDL_gfx-2.0/Docs/html/_s_d_l__rotozoom_8h.html#a3cb0c11d5edc929579c807dc7612348c) which should've rotated my surface at runtime, but it seems that whenever I do that my surface turns invisible. It doesn't matter if I predefine the rotation or use it at runtime, the same happens, I've …

So, I'm playing around with SDL and I've come across a bit of a bump. I have one image and I am trying to "free" that image to put on another one. Here is what my code looks like.. [CODE] // I did get a good section of this code …

Hi, DaniWeb forum members! I am an above-amateur programmer and this is my first more complex SDL-based program. I am trying to make the menu of a game, but SDL cannot capture the key presses when a single key was pressed. I use only UP and DOWN arrows, in this …

I was watching a tutorial that says that we first need to check if any direction key was pressed, and only then we check which key was pressed, like this: [CODE]while( running == true ) { while( SDL_PollEvent(&event) ) { if ( event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN ) //checking if any key …

So i just started learning SDL and came across "Event driven programming", just wanted to be sure if i understood the tutorial correcly. So lets say by adding: [CODE]SDL_Event event;[/CODE] i add lets say a container that keeps track of every event i do? After that i start using: [CODE]while …

Just recently started learning SDL and have this problem, this program should properly display my background and message on the screen, but instead its just a black screen. Did the Blit, did the Flip, maybe im missing something? Heres the code: P.S i know i might forgot to add some …

I am looking to make a 3D game, I have made plenty of fun ones in 2D using SDL but have yet to attempt a 3D (fps style) game. Does anybody know either a way to do 3D with SDL, or some other similar or easy to use library that …

Hello, I have decided to make a timer program on my computer to limit the amount of time that I game. Anyways, I have it working fine with a small borderless window in the top left of the screen that ticks down and when it gets to 0 it sounds …

I have made a header file for SDL GUI applications. I was testing the SDLGame::Draw() function when I got a SigSegV fault. The fault occurs in different locations each time I run the program. Also sometimes instead of a SigSegV fault I get a SigTrap fault. Here is the code …

Hi everyone, I'm trying to program a game in C++ using SDL and i want to get peoples names. its not working though, and I'm really confused as to [B]why[/B]. :?: i'm using code like the following: [B]StringInput.h[/B] [CODE] class StringInput { private: std::string str; SDL_Surface *text; int x,y,r,g,b; SDL_Color …

Hey, im in need of a little help... im trying to have my .exe show an image with sdl, wait 2500 milliseconds, close the image and then return to the black console screen with my cout statments and whatnot appearing. But instead when i exit sdl, the whole program exits. …