SDLKit

A kinda high-ish level bridge between SDL2 and .NET.

But why, though?

I like SDL and I like C#, but whenever I do a project where I mash the two of them together it feels like I always end up having to spend a bunch of time writing interop definitions and setting up SDL. Rather than maintaining a template or anything like that, I figured I'd write a library that I could easily pull down from NuGet whenever I need to plot any fancy pixels or play beeps and/or boops.

What does this provide?

Window

Plops a window on your desktop. Nothing special here!

Video

Pixel plotting
Image loading (via SDL_image)
Support for an arbitrary number of render targets

Timer

Callback-based

Audio

Callback-based
Audio in SDLKit currently accepts floats and will convert it to whatever data type the OS demands
Both big- and little-endian systems should be supported, if you happen to be a PPC user running modern .NET stuff :)

Events

Window/WM
Keyboard
Mouse
Gamepad

"Renderables"

Higher level surfaces that might come in handy.

TextConsole: a console that allows you to load a file and easily Write text to (or plot characters onto it)
TileGrid: a multi-layer graphical surface that lets you scatter tiles from a tile sheet around

How do I do the thing?

Documentation is fairly sparse at the moment, as I'm sure there's still a lot of tweaking I'll have to do to make this useful for my purposes, let alone a general audience. The demo project is going to be your best source of documentation for the time being.

I've also taken a lot of time to write XMLDocs across the board, so simply poking around with your IDE should give you quite a bit of information to work with.

I have an idea!

Feel free to open an issue and we can discuss it.

You did XYZ wrong!

Maybe! Feel free to open an issue to let me know, or show me how it's done by opening a pull request.

Spectere/SdlKit