FreeGameDev

These are the most important new features in SDL 2.0:

- Full 3D hardware acceleration
- Support for OpenGL 3.0+ in various profiles (core, compatibility, debug, robust, etc)
- Support for OpenGL ES
- Support for multiple windows
- Support for multiple displays
- Support for multiple audio devices
- Android and iOS support
- Simple 2D rendering API that can use Direct3D, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, or software rendering behind the scenes
- Force Feedback available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
- XInput and XAudio2 support for Windows
- Atomic operations
- Power management (exposes battery life remaining, etc)
- Shaped windows
- 32-bit audio (int and float)
- Simplified Game Controller API (the Joystick API is still here, too!)
- Touch support (multitouch, gestures, etc)
- Better fullscreen support
- Better keyboard support (scancodes vs keycodes, etc).
- Message boxes
- Clipboard support
- Basic Drag'n'Drop support
- Proper unicode input and IME support
- A really powerful assert macro
- Lots of old annoyances from 1.2 are gone
- Many other things!

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:I wonder about the extension libraries, though. They are hardly mentioned.

• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/
• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net//

jcantero {l Wrote}:

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:I wonder about the extension libraries, though. They are hardly mentioned.

Yeah, they are a bit hidden:

• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/
• http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net//

amuzen {l Wrote}:I might give it a try at some point since I'm not particularly pleased with a certain other library that I have been using.