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#1 2007-07-14 19:43:31
- Davigetto
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Differende beetween GLX and SDL? Who is better?
Hi, I am a bit newbie on graphic questions. What is GLX and SDL, and what are their differences? Who is better?
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#2 2007-07-14 19:50:09
- Ramses de Norre
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Re: Differende beetween GLX and SDL? Who is better?
Hi, I am a bit newbie on graphic questions. What is GLX and SDL, and what are their differences? Who is better?
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GLX is an X extension which allows OpenGL usage and SDL is a graphical library for C and C++ to use some advanced graphics in your programs. As far as I know, SDL actually uses XGL (maybe indirectly). You can't compare them as they are totally different things...
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLX and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLX
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#3 2007-07-15 08:06:27
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Re: Differende beetween GLX and SDL? Who is better?
SDL is smarter and more portable
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#4 2007-07-15 08:44:37
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Re: Differende beetween GLX and SDL? Who is better?
not quite, they're different things. incomparable maybe.
SDL provides a whole pile of functions, usually used for games, things like: input, sound, and primarily 2D drawing. It has some 3D support too afaik.
GLX is support for OpenGL under X, allowing programs to use GL under X.
When you use the GL support in SDL, it is running through GLX.
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#5 2007-07-15 09:19:07
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Re: Differende beetween GLX and SDL? Who is better?
Perhaps he asked because of nexuiz providing a sdl and a glx binary. For me the sdl version runs better/faster on nvidia cars whikle the glx one runs a lot better on intel.
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#6 2007-07-15 19:56:34
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Re: Differende beetween GLX and SDL? Who is better?
Perhaps he asked because of nexuiz providing a sdl and a glx binary. For me the sdl version runs better/faster on nvidia cars whikle the glx one runs a lot better on intel.
lol, you told the correct answer, nexuiz 
, so GLX tuns better on intel 
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