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More general fix for bug #189 The clipping is done at a higher level, and the low level functions are passed clipped rectangles. Drivers which don't support source clipping have not been changed, so the image will be squished instead of clipped, but at least they will no longer crash when the destination rect was out of bounds.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:47:23 +0000
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>This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux,
Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces,
(for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to
your application.  This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely
portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P
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>The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native
platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for
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>An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
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>There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are
fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive,
available on the
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>For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try
some of the following links:
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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam Lantinga
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