-Hello Mouse? An Example of the New Event Code +Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution
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+Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.
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-You need the new code from the redesign branch to use this .
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The road so far
+Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.
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#!/usr/bin/env perl +Getting people to use SDL Perl
+After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas.
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- Tutorials/Documentation
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+ - We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck +
- What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? + +
- A project start to finish? +
- Individual tutorials for various topics? +
- What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? +
- API sweetness -use SDL; -use SDL::Events; -use SDL::Event; -use SDL::Video; +
- SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries -SDL::init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO); +
- This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces +
- How do people design this stuff? -my $display = SDL::Video::set_video_mode(640,480,32, SDL_SWSURFACE ); -my $event = SDL::Event->new(); +
- We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought +
- Any takers? +
- Distribution -while(1) -{ - SDL::Events::pump_events(); +
- If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus - if(SDL::Events::poll_event($event) && $event->type == SDL_ACTIVEEVENT) - { - print "Hello Mouse!!!\n" if ($event->active_gain && ($event->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS) ); - print "Bye Mouse!!!\n" if (!$event->active_gain && ($event->active_state == SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS) ); - } - - exit if($event->type == SDL_QUIT); -}
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