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Last Update: October 1st, 2002

News

October 1st, 2002 -jsdl4scott: Added Solaris Sparc binary, Ports and Platforms, Solaris howtoand JSDL at Console howto.

September 20th, 2002 -jsdl4scott: Added online Javadocs. Implemented SDLUserEvents.java which lets users define custom events using the SDL event engine. Added Demos TestUserEvent.java and GUIxxxx.java (minimal awt-like GUI demo, suited for Windowing env, Java set-top boxes, embedded java, etc). Added Screenshots.

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About Jsdl or J4sdl

"Java for sdl" is a binding for SDL written in Java. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) provides a portable low level API well suited for media applications and games. Now you can use SDL and still program with Java.

Features: Much of what core SDL provides, plus some extensions

- Fast Audio and Video device access

- Multiple Audio and Video format support (CD Audio, Mpeg1, MP3, WAV, BMP, JPG, PNG, etc..)

- Event handling (keyboard, mouse, user defined)

- Easy API

Portablility with Performance. SDL gives near direct device access ... now from java. See

- SDL supported platforms and

- JSDL ports / tested platforms.

Documentation

Documentation	Description
Install docs	Quick start and full installation guides.
Javadoc API	Tutorials, sample code and other JSDL HOW-TOs. See also Overview Package and seleceted classes for more information.
SDL Documentation	SDL Features Full SDL API docs Tutorials Demos Addons, libraries, etc.
Misc	Other miscelaneous docs ( Solaris ports, etc )
Ports / Platforms	List of current supported JSDL platforms and ports
CVS notes	syntax for checking out code.

Demos - JSDL in action

Demo / Example	Description
Unit Tests and Demos	Code in package "sdl.test" that illustrates basic JSDL functionality. View Demo Source in CVS Demo Javadocs \| JSDL Core Javadocs Demo Screenshots
Applet Demos	JSDL demos written as browser viewable Java Applets.

Download

Download	Description
Binaries	Precompiled binaries for Linux x86 (tested on redhat) Solaris Sparc precompile binaries (test only) Requires dependency package (SDL libraries, jpeg, png, etc) Old versions - see homepage
Sources	Source code from CVS Other platforms (Microsoft Windows, BSD, Mac OS X, etc...) see Dependencies
Javadocs	Downloadable javadocs for Core JSDL and JSDL Demos
Dependencies	Required dependencies for JSDL Java SDL+ SDL_Image, Smpeg, SFont

Authors

Jerome G. Fillon (Active) Consultant in the Montreal (Qc) area for Softimedia .

Scott Straw (Active)

Doug Johnson (Active)

Archived News

August 31st 2002 : A new overview page has been added here.

July 22nd 2002 :

JSDL now supports SFont-1.5 (Everything except version '2' interfaces is supported.)

JSDL supports IMG_Load from SDL_Image-1.2.1, this features allows JSDL to load any image format supported by SDL_Image-1.2.1 including PNG.

A modification has been done to fix the problem with SDLSurface.convertSurface.

Please don't hesitate to submit fixes, or requirements. (Support for Font through SFont has been sent as a requirement for a new feature by a friendly user :) )

January 11th 2002 : Happy new year to everybody. Cleaned some stuff. Added a build.xml file for Ant. Everything has been recompiled for SDL-1.2.3

May 12th 2001 : JSDL in action has now some demos online.

May 6th 2001 : Support for more video apis, SDL_Overlay, SDL_Cursor have been added. Package has been released too.

Apr. 26th 2001 : CDRom and WindowManager support is now in CVS.

Apr. 14th 2001 : My latest patches and fixes have been transfered into CVS.

Mar. 10th 2001 : Source code can be found in CVS. Scripts to build and run are present but won't work, too many hard links, nevertheless scripts are very simple.

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