**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 02:55

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 02:55

Vee Satayamas @veer66@mastodon.xyz

People still use Java Swing https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12309569/what-gui-libraries-are-the-jetbrains-using/12311981#12311981 ?

**/home/m3tti** @m3tti@functional.cafe · May 10, 2018, 07:03

**/home/m3tti** @m3tti@functional.cafe · May 10, 2018, 07:03

@veer66 whaaat ???? For real :D

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 07:04

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 07:04

@m3tti I guess https://www.defold.com/ editor and IntelliJ IDEA use Swing.

**/home/m3tti** @m3tti@functional.cafe · May 10, 2018, 07:46

**/home/m3tti** @m3tti@functional.cafe · May 10, 2018, 07:46

@veer66 That‘s crazy i‘ve used it years ago :D but if it works don‘t fix it. I liked it nur nowadays i would go with something like react

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 14:56

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 14:56

@m3tti Electron.io?

**/home/m3tti** @m3tti@functional.cafe · May 10, 2018, 16:34

**/home/m3tti** @m3tti@functional.cafe · May 10, 2018, 16:34

@veer66 electron.io is quiet nice but to install a dedicated browser for one app is somehow overkill I think. would be nice to see something similar like react for clojure or SDL or opengl :D

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 23:05

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2018, 23:05

@m3tti I don't think SDL will handle international text properly.

**แทกโนมันซี** @technomancy · May 10, 2018, 23:23

**แทกโนมันซี** @technomancy · May 10, 2018, 23:23

@veer66 @m3tti I use LÖVE in my game Bussard, and it uses SDL. Bussard is able to display Thai characters correctly as well as Chinese as long as the font you use covers it. But I haven't tried RTL scripts yet.

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 11, 2018, 00:40

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 11, 2018, 00:40

@technomancy @m3tti LÖVE uses FreeType[1], so it should be okay, while it doesn't break text into lines.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/src/default/src/modules/font/freetype/

**แทกโนมันซี** @technomancy · 2018-05-11T00:41:38Z

แทกโนมันซี @technomancy

@veer66 @m3tti ah I see; so it's not something you get from libsdl alone. good to know; thanks. I get spoiled by using #love2d so I don't have to think about these things.

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**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 11, 2018, 00:44

**Vee Satayamas** @veer66@mastodon.xyz · May 11, 2018, 00:44

@technomancy @m3tti SDL_ttf seems to use FreeType too, so maybe it works. However, I'm not sure about line breaking.

**flock of birbs** @dthompson@toot.cat · May 11, 2018, 01:48

**flock of birbs** @dthompson@toot.cat · May 11, 2018, 01:48

@veer66 @technomancy @m3tti SDL_ttf isn't great for games that use OpenGL because it renders to a software buffer that you then have to translate to a texture. I used to do this because it was the easiest way to get ttf rendering. For static text this may be fine, but for dynamic text it's a lot of overhead.