[Verse-dev] "Betray" on X11

[eskil at obsession.se]

Hi

> Out of curiousity, what problems are you having with SDL?

Its a very silly one. There is a event in SDL you get every time the  
window size changes. When ever you get that you are required to  
restart the video system. This means that you will loose your GL  
context. If you loose you GL context you need to re upload all  
textures and geometry to the graphics card, and recompile and relink  
all shaders. This is supported by my apps but is quite time consuming,  
and the objects in the view take a while to rebuild.

This is very annoying especially since if you don't restart the  
display it works anyway! With one exception: you now longer read mouse  
inputs in the entire window but only on the part of the window that's  
the size of the old window size. So you need to reset the entire  
graphics system just to reset a few values in SDL that has got nothing  
to do with graphics at all! This pissed me off... Also there is always  
a problem with dependencies. some people hide DLLs and that makes it  
hard to do things like copy a EXE form one place to an other. As I'm  
sure you all appreciate how good Blender is when it comes to this. My  
apps do produce quite a few files, but none of them should be required  
to run the apps.

Cheers

E