Welcome!

Welcome to the blog of the SDL Utility Library. I started this blog so that I will be able to easily publish news about the development of the library, while also posting articles about different issues I've encountered, as well as how I managed to fix them. My hope is that someday, someone that has a similar problem will be able to find a suitable solution/answer without going through all the fuss I went through (yeah... there were things that I needed, and the information was scattered all around the web)

The SDL Utility Library, is exactly what its name suggests: an utility library for SDL2, the Simple Direct-Media Layer. It provides a set of APIs that make developing SDL2 applications faster and easier. Some of its core features are:

• A fully-featured Button API [with ability for callbacks and completely customizable appearence], blending seamlessly with the SDL2 event queue.
• A set of functions to cap the framerate of your application.
• A 2D Sprite API, built on top of the SDL2 Render API.
• A powerful Text Rendering API.
• cxx, An optional C++ interface of SDL2 [SDL_Window, SDL_Renderer and SDL_Texture]

The SDL Utility Library (SDLU for short) is written in plain C (apart from the cxx interface, of course), and is licensed under the zlib license. zlib, which is also used by SDL2, is a very liberal license which permits almost anything. The library works with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android [Mac OS X and iOS support mostly exists in the source code, but I have no access to a Mac machine to test it -- patches welcome].

-- Aggelos Kolaitis