Re: Major API change for SDL 0.9.11

[Sam Lantinga <slouken@devolution.com>]

[Catching up on old e-mail...]
> >                 SDL_LoadBMP(SDL_RWFromFile("sample.bmp", "rb"), 1, ...);
> >         The SDL_LoadBMP() function will close the opened file automatically.

> How does SDL_RWFromFile () work? In particular - how do you determine
> where to get the file? If I want e.g. open something contained in a PPlay
> PakFile, how do I tell SDL_RWFromFile() and how does it contact the PPlay 
> File mechanism?

You would write a new datasource, implementing the stdio-like functions
for Pakfiles.  You could then pass the new PPlay PakFile datasource to
the SDL library transparently - i.e. without ever recompiling SDL. :)
Once this was done, SDL WAV and BMP file loading would immediately get 
all the benefits of PPlay PakFiles in your code.

See ya!
	-Sam Lantinga				(slouken@devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
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Author of Simple DirectMedia Layer -
	http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/
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