Hi all! I've recently been hired by a startup company. They plan to develop a 2D RPG game, with 2D characters that move on "blocks". A guys will make the artistic part in programs for editing graphics, another will write the plot, etc.
Since I'm the only one that got the development and programming part, I have almost full power to chose the technology back-end. I was thinking about using Qt (that I worked with during three years and I love it) and maybe its embedded version or maybe Tk (from the Tcl guys), that I know and like it too (specially the canvas object). The difference between Qt and Tk is that the former is a full development framework and the later is just a nice toolkit. But, on LinuxCon in Brazil (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-brazil), I saw a very nice presentation from ProFUSION guys showing ELF, that I have been very curious to try much earlier. I liked the presentation a lot (specially the advocacy over Evas!) and, with this opportunity, I may try using ELF. So, I have a few questions: 1. What exactly the fact the ELF is LGPL means for developing proprietary applications? May I link it statically? (Oh, after some time back in the development world, need to re-read licenses...) 2. This game will probably not use Elementary. Since all the UI and the game itself will be customized, we are thinking on using nice features of Evas. An artist will use a GIMP-like program to develop user interfaces, characters, menus, etc. May I show layers of PNG images that have transparent regions? Any word on that? 3. MS Windows is the main target, but we want to develop it under GNU/Linux and NetBSD and deploy it under Windows. I see ELF are portable, right? What about "embedded" platforms like Android and iOS? 4. What is the status of the C++ binding? Isn't recommended to use the ELF C API inside a C++ application, is it? 5. How does ELF handles sound? Does it use lower level layers like ALSA, OSS or multi-thread OSS? 6. Any word on my simple problem? Sorry for the very basic questions, but I didn't have time to look inside ELF documentation and try some examples yet! Thank you! -- Silas Silva ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
