Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by jchw on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:43PM
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Out of curiosity, aside from the obvious disadvantages you mentioned, what advantages does it bring to the table? Long-time casual user of Aseprite. To be honest, I never knew it was open source until just now, I actually own a couple copies.
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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
by git-pull on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:00PM
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Allegro, SDL2, SFML, et al. do more things (audio, joystick support, keyboard/mouse events) across platforms. Skia does one thing really well, 2D graphics.
There is a ticket open for building an abstraction layer @ https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/139
In terms of Aseprite:
> > But what made it the choice over Allegro 5, SFML, and SDL2?
> through all these years I reached to the conclusion that you need full control of mouse and keyboard messages (and all window messages in particular, e.g. to give proper support to pen/stylus). [1]
[1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/issues/139#issuecomment...
OK, I agree with the sentiment. SDL2 is probably the closest to doing the right things, but even then you're on your own with the stylus APIs mostly.
So far, the only library I've used that can properly abstract graphics tablets across platforms is Qt, and in the past it has been sometimes rough around the edges with support for it. I think on Windows it is still using the Wintab32 API and not the newer Windows 8 Ink APIs, for example.