[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Question (SDL UI)

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:09:37PM -0400, Daniel Bennett wrote:
> >     I've been looking through the mailing list and I couldn't
> > determine this one my own for sure.. Is anyone working with SDL
> > to create a UI?  I've noticed some stuff on using SDL for sound,
> > but not for the actual user interface...
>
> >     Has anyone made an effort to do this
>
> None that I know.

None that I know of either. But it is a good idea.

> > , or has it been written off as too much work?
>
> It is probably a lot of work. AFAIK the pure SDL doesn't support
> widgets so the workload is even higher for SDL than for a QT/KDE port

There exists a good SDL widget library: http://www.paragui.org/

Yours,
Per

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