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SDL VS GDI

Compare SDL VS GDI and see what are their differences

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SDL logo SDL

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level...

GDI logo GDI

GDI++.dll is a replacement for the Windows default font rasterizer, which gives you a better...
  • SDL Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-26
  • GDI Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-19

SDL videos

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Useful review features in SDL Trados Studio

More videos:

  • Review - Reviewing translations in SDL Trados Studio 2019
  • Review - Doral SDL-A All-Season TIRE REVIEW + SNOW

GDI videos

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what is a GDI engine?

More videos:

  • Review - DO NOT buy a GDI engine or direct injection?
  • Review - GDI Engines and Carbon Deposits | Know Your Parts

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SDL and GDI)

SDL

GDI

Game Engine
83 83%
Game Engine
17% 17
Game Development
81 81%
Game Development
19% 19
Localization
100 100%
Localization
0% 0
3D Game Engine
80 80%
3D Game Engine
20% 20

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SDL seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 18 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SDL mentions (18)

  • How was Pico8 made?
    In addition to the excellent video /u/DookieChumo linked, you can also look in the manual to see some of the technologies used. It's written in C, using SDL. If you're interested in something like a devlog, you could read the changelog to see its changes and the development of features over the years. Lua is fairly easy to embed into other programs, so you can write programs that use Lua scripts to decide what to... Source: over 1 year ago
  • How does one make their own GUI from scratch? (no GUI libraries)
    You could use the cross-platform library SDL. It has Python bindings: PySDL2. Source: over 1 year ago
  • I want to become a game dev one day, can you guys help me?
    You can use SDL, which is pretty easy to get into, has straight-forward (if somewhat sparse) documentation and has lots of pretty decent tutorials - see the links on the web site. Source: over 1 year ago
  • what #include<iostream> does in C++ Program ?
    Official website is https://libsdl.org where you can read more about download and install this library because it might not work on your computer. Source: over 1 year ago
  • which Library is used to Develop 2D Game in C++ ?
    To Develop 2D Game mostly Game Developer Prefers to use SDL Library it is Simple Media Layer originally Written in C Language but compatible with C++ and run Natively. The website of Libsdl is https://libsdl.org. It is free to use. Source: over 1 year ago
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GDI mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of GDI yet. Tracking of GDI recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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