Hmmm that'd make sense... Forgot about SDL and haven't used it much previously.
What about making a simple gui for the project? Would SDL do this easily or should i use GTK/QT or something like that?
If you haven't guessed, i'm more windows then linux atm so am fairly ignorant of the commonly used tools still.
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Never mind, looks like it can be done with SDL :)
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If you want to create GUIs, you might want to look at Tk and/or Wx. Bot are GUI toolkits which will work on multiple OSes and have libraries for different programming languages as well.
Also, if you want to build graphics intense applications, SDL sure is one way to go, but if you come from C++ you might be disappointed by the performance, interpreted languages like Perl, Ruby or Python deliver.
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but if you come from C++ you might be disappointed by the performance,
That's true, but probably not to the extent you imagine. The OpenGL module has "comparable" performance to C, according to these benchmarks: http://graphcomp.com/opengl/index.cgi?v=0111s3B1&r=s3m3.
I second the comments about Tk and Wx. You might also like to look at GtkPerl (it's cross-platform).
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