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4 >Initializing SDL</TITLE | |
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6 NAME="GENERATOR" | |
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7 CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ |
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9 REL="HOME" | |
10 TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" | |
11 HREF="index.html"><LINK | |
12 REL="UP" | |
13 TITLE="The Basics" | |
14 HREF="guidethebasics.html"><LINK | |
15 REL="PREVIOUS" | |
16 TITLE="The Basics" | |
17 HREF="guidethebasics.html"><LINK | |
18 REL="NEXT" | |
19 TITLE="Graphics and Video" | |
20 HREF="guidevideo.html"></HEAD | |
21 ><BODY | |
22 CLASS="SECT1" | |
23 BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" | |
24 TEXT="#000000" | |
25 LINK="#0000ee" | |
26 VLINK="#551a8b" | |
27 ALINK="#ff0000" | |
28 ><DIV | |
29 CLASS="NAVHEADER" | |
30 ><TABLE | |
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33 BORDER="0" | |
34 CELLPADDING="0" | |
35 CELLSPACING="0" | |
36 ><TR | |
37 ><TH | |
38 COLSPAN="3" | |
39 ALIGN="center" | |
40 >SDL Library Documentation</TH | |
41 ></TR | |
42 ><TR | |
43 ><TD | |
44 WIDTH="10%" | |
45 ALIGN="left" | |
46 VALIGN="bottom" | |
47 ><A | |
48 HREF="guidethebasics.html" | |
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0 | 50 >Prev</A |
51 ></TD | |
52 ><TD | |
53 WIDTH="80%" | |
54 ALIGN="center" | |
55 VALIGN="bottom" | |
56 >Chapter 1. The Basics</TD | |
57 ><TD | |
58 WIDTH="10%" | |
59 ALIGN="right" | |
60 VALIGN="bottom" | |
61 ><A | |
62 HREF="guidevideo.html" | |
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65 ></TD | |
66 ></TR | |
67 ></TABLE | |
68 ><HR | |
69 ALIGN="LEFT" | |
70 WIDTH="100%"></DIV | |
71 ><DIV | |
72 CLASS="SECT1" | |
73 ><H1 | |
74 CLASS="SECT1" | |
75 ><A | |
76 NAME="GUIDEBASICSINIT" | |
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77 ></A |
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78 >Initializing SDL</H1 |
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80 >SDL is composed of eight subsystems - Audio, CDROM, Event Handling, File I/O, Joystick Handling, Threading, Timers and Video. Before you can use any of these subsystems they must be initialized by calling <A | |
81 HREF="sdlinit.html" | |
82 ><TT | |
83 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
84 >SDL_Init</TT | |
85 ></A | |
86 > (or <A | |
87 HREF="sdlinitsubsystem.html" | |
88 ><TT | |
89 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
90 >SDL_InitSubSystem</TT | |
91 ></A | |
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94 >SDL_Init</TT | |
95 > must be called before any other SDL function. It automatically initializes the Event Handling, File I/O and Threading subsystems and it takes a parameter specifying which other subsystems to initialize. So, to initialize the default subsystems and the Video subsystems you would call: | |
96 <PRE | |
97 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" | |
98 > SDL_Init ( SDL_INIT_VIDEO );</PRE | |
99 > | |
100 To initialize the default subsystems, the Video subsystem and the Timers subsystem you would call: | |
101 <PRE | |
102 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" | |
103 > SDL_Init ( SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_TIMER );</PRE | |
104 ></P | |
105 ><P | |
106 ><TT | |
107 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
108 >SDL_Init</TT | |
109 > is complemented by <A | |
110 HREF="sdlquit.html" | |
111 ><TT | |
112 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
113 >SDL_Quit</TT | |
114 ></A | |
115 > (and <A | |
116 HREF="sdlquitsubsystem.html" | |
117 ><TT | |
118 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
119 >SDL_QuitSubSystem</TT | |
120 ></A | |
121 >). <TT | |
122 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
123 >SDL_Quit</TT | |
124 > shuts down all subsystems, including the default ones. It should always be called before a SDL application exits.</P | |
125 ><P | |
126 >With <TT | |
127 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
128 >SDL_Init</TT | |
129 > and <TT | |
130 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
131 >SDL_Quit</TT | |
132 > firmly embedded in your programmers toolkit you can write your first and most basic SDL application. However, we must be prepare to handle errors. Many SDL functions return a value and indicates whether the function has succeeded or failed, <TT | |
133 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
134 >SDL_Init</TT | |
135 >, for instance, returns -1 if it could not initialize a subsystem. SDL provides a useful facility that allows you to determine exactly what the problem was, every time an error occurs within SDL an error message is stored which can be retrieved using <TT | |
136 CLASS="FUNCTION" | |
137 >SDL_GetError</TT | |
138 >. Use this often, you can never know too much about an error.</P | |
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147 ></P |
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149 CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" | |
150 >#include "SDL.h" /* All SDL App's need this */ | |
151 #include <stdio.h> | |
152 | |
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153 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { |
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155 printf("Initializing SDL.\n"); | |
156 | |
157 /* Initialize defaults, Video and Audio */ | |
158 if((SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO|SDL_INIT_AUDIO)==-1)) { | |
159 printf("Could not initialize SDL: %s.\n", SDL_GetError()); | |
160 exit(-1); | |
161 } | |
162 | |
163 printf("SDL initialized.\n"); | |
164 | |
165 printf("Quiting SDL.\n"); | |
166 | |
167 /* Shutdown all subsystems */ | |
168 SDL_Quit(); | |
169 | |
170 printf("Quiting....\n"); | |
171 | |
172 exit(0); | |
173 } </PRE | |
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177 CLASS="NAVFOOTER" | |
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179 ALIGN="LEFT" | |
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186 ><TR | |
187 ><TD | |
188 WIDTH="33%" | |
189 ALIGN="left" | |
190 VALIGN="top" | |
191 ><A | |
192 HREF="guidethebasics.html" | |
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195 ></TD | |
196 ><TD | |
197 WIDTH="34%" | |
198 ALIGN="center" | |
199 VALIGN="top" | |
200 ><A | |
201 HREF="index.html" | |
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204 ></TD | |
205 ><TD | |
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207 ALIGN="right" | |
208 VALIGN="top" | |
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213 ></TD | |
214 ></TR | |
215 ><TR | |
216 ><TD | |
217 WIDTH="33%" | |
218 ALIGN="left" | |
219 VALIGN="top" | |
220 >The Basics</TD | |
221 ><TD | |
222 WIDTH="34%" | |
223 ALIGN="center" | |
224 VALIGN="top" | |
225 ><A | |
226 HREF="guidethebasics.html" | |
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229 ></TD | |
230 ><TD | |
231 WIDTH="33%" | |
232 ALIGN="right" | |
233 VALIGN="top" | |
234 >Graphics and Video</TD | |
235 ></TR | |
236 ></TABLE | |
237 ></DIV | |
238 ></BODY | |
239 ></HTML | |
240 > |