SDL3 release

SDL3 got released

News,

The major news is the release of SDL3! Many improvements and new features got implemented! We are working on creating an easy to use binding called SDL3 for Pascal in a community effort. It is Free Pascal and Delphi compatible. sechshelme is working on another set of bindings as well.

Updated and fixed the code in the chapter about keyboard states. Fixed some “Next/Previous Chapter”-Links.

Fairtris 2: The Ultimate Challenge got released and has got many impressive improvements! You should definitively look into this game. It is open source and you can learn a lot how to use SDL2 in Pascal.

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New Version of SDL2-for-Pascal Units Released

News,

Version 2.2 of the SDL2-for-Pascal Units got released! It took nearly two and a half years to update the SDL2-for-Pascal Units to be quite up-to-date with the latest version of SDL2. We got a quite updated package now. For you this means, there is no good reason not to start using SDL2 in Pascal to realize your (game) projects, be it with Free Pascal or Delphi, on Linux, Windows or MacOS. – Other compilers and OS’es work too, probably.

I’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. I’d also like to thank suve, the co-maintainer, for the great cooperation, without which some large improvements would be missing in this release and some serious mistakes wouldn’t have been caught before merging the code :-)!

Happy New Year and Happy Coding!

Here are the offical release notes:

  • SDL2 unit is up-to-date with at least version 2.0.14 of the SDL2 library (exception sdlthread.inc)
  • many aliases got replaced by typed enums
  • add single and double pointers for all types (thanks furious-programming)
  • update SDL_ttf.pas to latest version 2.21.0
  • replace data types by c data types (see PR #29)
  • add folder structure (see PR #27)
  • many bugfixes