AI is a pushover & UI

[Stan Shebs]

Joe R wrote:

>I know nothing about SDL, so forgive the newbie question, but why is it
>a better option than tcl/tk?
>
It's not so much that SDL is intrinsically better, but that it's a
new interface design started from scratch with the goal of doing
everything within a single window, as most commercial games are
organized these days.  SDL does help, by being able to support
translucent popups and non-rectangular interface elements that
"float" over other elements.  The UI won't have quite the flexibility
of the multi-window arrangement, but I suspect that's not so
important to players.

SDL is also optimized for games; many of Loki's Linux game ports
were done with SDL.  Check out www.libsdl.org for the details.

Stan