Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (March 2008)

SFML
Developed by	Laurent GOMILA
Latest release	1.2 / 16 january 2008
Written in	C++
OS	Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
Available in	Multilingual
License	Personal free licence
Website	Official SFML website

SFML is an easy to use portable API, written in C++ but also available in C , Python and Ruby . Its main purpose is to offer an alternative library to the SDL library by using an object oriented approach. Speed and effectivenes are one of SFML's key assets.

Thanks to its numerous modules, SFML can be used as a minimal windowing system to interface with OpenGL or as a multimedia library whose functionalities enable the user to create Video games and interactive programs.

Contents 1 Packages 2 Bindings 3 Version release dates 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Packages

The packages that SFML proposes are :

• System
• Window
• Graphics
• Audio
• Network

[edit] Bindings

[edit] Version release dates

• 1.0 : July 2007
  • 1.1 : 18 September 2007
  • 1.2 : 16 January 2008

[edit] See also

• SDL
• Allegro library
• OpenML
• DirectX
• OpenGL
• pygame

[edit] External links

• Official SFML website
• SFML releases
• Roadmap
• Tutorials