SDL Tutorials

There are a number of SDL tutorials available from different sources.

Multi-Subject

• SDLTutorials.com

  • Wow! A whole website about SDL tutorials, including SDL basics, events, animation, entities, maps and other topics

Video

• Streaming textures with SDL 1.3

  • A quick guide to streaming textures.

• Using GLSL with SDL

  • A tutorial on enabling and using GLSL extensions with SDL.

  • Check out http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/default/test/testshader.c also.

• OpenGL 3 Samples Pack

  • Using SDL 1.3 beta with OpenGL 3

• OpenGL 3.2 and SDL

  • Creating a Cross Platform OpenGL 3.2 Context in SDL

Haptic

• The SDL 1.3 Haptic Interface

  • Covers the basics of how to create and playback simple force feedback effects with SDL.

Input

• Text Input

  • Using SDL for text inputs with specific consideration for international users.

Threads

• Condition variables in SDL

  • A good discussion of condition variables, in computer science rather than gaming context. Some mention of mutex and semaphore use.

SDL 1.2

• SDL 1.2 Tutorials