Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Infobox Software
name = SFML
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description = Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
developer = Laurent GOMILA
latest release version = 1.3
latest release date = 22 June 2008
programming language = C++
operating system = Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
language = Multilingual
type = Multimedia Library
license = [http://www.sfml-dev.org/license.php Personal free licence]
website = [http://www.sfml-dev.org/index.php Official SFML website]

SFML is a portable API, written in C++ but also available in C, Python, Ruby and D. Its main purpose is to offer an alternative library to the SDL library by using an object oriented approach.

Thanks to its numerous modules, SFML can be used as a minimal windowing system to interface with OpenGL or as a multimedia library whose functionalities enable the user to create Video games and interactive programs.

Packages

The packages that SFML proposes are:

* System
* Window
* Graphics
* Audio
* Network

Bindings

Version release dates

* 1.0: July 2007
** 1.1: 18 September 2007
** 1.2: 16 January 2008
** 1.3: 22 June 2008

See also

* SDL
* Allegro library
* OpenML
* DirectX
* OpenGL
* pygame

External links

* [http://www.sfml-dev.org/index.php Official SFML website]
* [http://www.sfml-dev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=76 SFML releases]
* [http://www.sfml-dev.org/roadmap.php Roadmap]
* [http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/ Tutorials]