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Holding down shift while moving the mouse's scrollwheel on MacOS X makes the OS report these are "horizontal scrollwheel" events, which confuses gaming apps in several legitimate conditions. Now all scrollwheel events are made to look vertical when passed to the app. Patch by John Knottenbelt. http://www.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl/2005-March/067978.html
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:32:41 +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
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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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