Re: [Gnash-dev] Is SDL needed for libmad or ffmpeg? And what about GTK and renderers?

[Rob Savoye]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> The README says GTK (GtkGlExt) and FLTK2 are alternatives to SDL. And 
> suggests GTK version is better due to full event handling.

  THe README is old, but yes, the FLTK2 or GTK2 support is much better 
than the SDL "GUI" support. We still use SDL for handling multimedia files.

> Also README says cairo is an renderer option. But later it says it is 
> required when using GTK. So are opengl and agg only options when not using 
> GTK?

  We use GTK2 cause it's a much better GUI toolkit than SDL. All GUI 
front ends to Gnash cna be mixed with the rendering backend, so you can 
mix GTK with GL using GTKGLEXT (a popular combination for Gnash), or GTK 
with AGG, which is what most device ports uses.

        - rob -