NAME

SDL::App - a SDL perl extension

SYNOPSIS

  $app = new SDL::App ( -title => 'FunkMeister 2000', 
                        -icon_title => 'FM2000',
                        -icon => 'funkmeister.png', 
                        -width => 400, 
                        -height => 400 );

DESCRIPTION

This Object is a composite made up of a few surfaces, and strings. This object does the setup for the SDL library, and greates the base application window.

The options that the constructor takes are:

-title => the title bar of the window -icon_title => the title bar of the icon -icon => the icon image file -flags => the SDL_* surface flags for the default window -width => of the app window -height => of the app window -depth => the bit depth of the window

Additional Methods

        In addition to initilizing the SDL library, the app class
provides access to a couple miscellaneous functions that all programs
may need:

        $app->delay(milliseconds);

Delay will cause a delay of roughly the specified milliseconds. Since this only runs in multi-tasking environments, the exact number is not assured.

        $app->ticks();

Ticks returns the number of clock ticks since the program was started.

        $app->error();

Error returns any pending SDL related error messages. It returns an empty string if no errors are pending, making it print friendly.

        $app->warp(x,y);

Will move the cursor to the location x,y.

AUTHOR

David J. Goehrig

SEE ALSO

perl(1) SDL::Surface(3) SDL::Mixer(3) SDL::Event(3) SDL::Cdrom(3).