EiffelMedia

Maintainer

Till G Bay

Description

EiffelMedia (formerly ESDL) is a wrapper for » SDL, a multimedia library that is very popular amongst Linux game developers. SDL comprises subsystems for graphics, sound, networking, threading etc.

The aim of this project is to provide the Eiffel community with a wrapper of SDL that has an easy to understand and memorable API.

Categories

• Libraries - Multimedia

Versions

• 0.9.0 "kingfisher" (2006-08-11)

Links

• » Project home page
• » Downloads
• » Screenshots
• » Documentation
• » ESDL diploma thesis project plan
• » ESDL diploma thesis

Features

EiffelMedia provides the Eiffel programmer with facilities to develop multimedia applications:

• Video (2D drawing, or 3D using OpenGL)
• Input handling (mouse, keyboard, CD-ROM and joystick)
• Audio (music and sound effects)
• Video (motion jpeg)
• Network (UDP and TCP)
• Extensions

Features include:

• a themable widget toolkit
• a multi player networking API
• collision detection supporting concave polygon collisions
• a resource loading framework
• a settings framework
• a widget for ISE Eiffel's Vision2 library
• a high score server
• texture generation

» image: EiffelMedia logo

Supported compilers

• ISE Eiffel 5.6 or 5.7

Platforms

• Linux
• Mac
• Win32

Licensing

• » Eiffel Forum License Version 2

Dependencies

• edoc (for documentation)
• Eiffel Wrapper Generator (to generate library)
• Gobo Eiffel

• » SDL library

Packages using EiffelMedia

• ESDL Games by Till G Bay and ETH Zurich students

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