SGE

SGE
SDL Graphics Extension

Mirrors:
http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8cal1/sge/index.html
http://www.digitalfanatics.org/cal/sge/index.html
SGE's Freshmeat page

SGE is a graphic library for the excellent Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library (mainly) written by Sam Lantinga.

So, why use SGE? Well, SDL is a low level API and if you don't want to spend time writing your own graphic functions (put pixel, line, circle...) you could use SGE instead.

Some of SGE:s features are:

Pixel operations
Clipping
Lines, circles and other figures (with antialiasing and alpha blending)
Rotation and scaling of surfaces
Palette functions
TrueType/Bitmap/SFont font functions
Basic 2D collision detection
Sprite classes
Basic texture mapping
Filled and gourand shaded polygons (with antialiasing or alpha blending)

And if you don't like something or want to change/add a function, you can use SGE to build your own graphic library (or, you could send me a mail with the complaint/change/contribution :-) ):

"This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details."

SGE can be linked to both C and C++ code. SGE is regulary tested on Intel Linux, Win32 machines and sometimes also on FreeBSD but should work on most platforms supported by SDL.

Mail me at cal[at]swipnet[dot]se (replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .).