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Clanlib - Game SDK

ClanLib is a medium level development kit. At its lowest level, it provides a platform independent way of dealing with display, sound, input, networking, files, threading, etc. Beyond that ClanLib builds a generic game development framework, giving you easy handling of resources, network object replication, graphical user interfaces (GUI) with theme support, game scripting and more. It lets game developers avoid lowlevel trivials like setting up a directdraw window, sound mixing, reading image files, etc. All those things are simplified into object oriented classes and function calls.

ClanLib uses a resource system to keep track of images, fonts, samples and music. It supports Targa, PCX, JPEG, PNG and BMP for images; wave files for sample; and Ogg Vorbis and MikMod for music. The resource system separates physical data formats from your code, and makes it easy to make themes and other plugins for your game.

All classes in clanlib focus on making simple interfaces that are customizeable and expandable. This keeps your game code clean and simple, but still lets you to do advanced work. ClanLib is object oriented, which lets you operate at both high and low levels, minimizing redundant code but still letting you do things not supported by clanlib's high level APIs.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.clanlib.org/
Source tarball	http://clanlib.org/~sphair/download/ClanLib-0.7.8-1.tar.gz
Source information	http://clanlib.org/download/

Version 0.7.8 (stable) released on 2004-05-11

Licensed under LGPL.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.clanlib.org/ClanLib-0.7.cgi/FAQ.html; Developer API guide available in HTML format from http://www.clanlib.org/ClanLib-0.7.cgi/Reference/html/modules.html; User tutorials available in HTML format from http://www.clanlib.org/docs.html

Support contacts

Help List	<clanlib-user@dark.x.dtu.dk> http://clanlib.org/development/mailinglist.html
Developer List	<clanlib-dev@dark.x.dtu.dk> http://clanlib.org/development/mailinglist.html

Project contacts

Maintainers	Magnus Norddahl <mbn@clanlib.org>
Developers	Magnus Norddahl <mbn@clanlib.org> Kenneth Gangstoe <sphair@clanlib.org> see also the CREDITS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@dark.x.dtu.dk:/usr/local/cvsroot password: http://www.clanlib.org/development/cvs.html
Interfaces	library
Source languages	C++
Use requirements	Hermes (http://clanlib.org/hermes) and zlib
Weak prerequisites	libjpeg, libpng, mikmod & libvorbis
Related programs	SDL, Plib

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-10-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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