41 weeks in one SFML News? Well it certainly has been a while and I’ll be painting with big brushes here. SFML 2.6.1 As previously hinted at, we did end up releasing SFML 2.6.1 in November 2023 and have since then accumulated a few more tiny fixes, including just the other day a 13 years […]
The internet has a lot advice on how to be a “10x engineer” meaning, how to be the most efficient (ten times more efficient!) and effective (ten times more effective!) developer (in the world!). In reality, it seems to me, that the bar for being an effective engineer is actually set quite low. I don’t […]
SFML 2.6.1 Looking at the last three minor releases, it was forseeable, that we would be releasing a patch version for SFML 2.6 some time soon. So far we’ve merged four fixes: The C++11 header issue was found, while getting the Conan package ready, which has since been merged. The OpenGL extension bug, was reported […]
SFML Development Update It took a while and a lot of testing efforts on the three big platforms, but setMaximumSize and setMinimumSize have just been merged! 🥳 I think it’s a great example of how even the seemingly simple features take quite a bit of thinking about the design and knowledge of the lower level […]
SFML Development Update I haven’t invested as much time into SFML development in the past two weeks, which makes it feel like less work was being done, but luckily we have other and even new contributors stepping up, so that feeling is not actually true! Also keep an eye on some very exciting upcoming changes […]
A recent tweet on my timeline had me thinking about games and game engines, which surprised me, because it used to be an often discussed topic, but it seems like with the rise of Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc. the topic has dwindled or maybe the internet is just filled with all the same responses. Of […]
SFML Development Updates Static Analysis Up until the other week, we had Coverity Scan, a static analysis tool, enabled for SFML, but while this is usually a commercial product, the usability is terrible to the point, where you have to asked, who would spend money to get this?! In addition, we started to get discrepancies […]
SFML Development Updates The last two weeks felt a bit slower than usual in the SFML development space, but this might have been, because I was quite busy. However, this doesn’t mean that nothing happened, on the contrary! We got a cool new feature, allowing you to set a window icon from an sf::Image, which […]
SFML 2.6 Updates There haven’t been large changes or concrete movements for the release itself, but we did fix two minor things: SFML 3.0 Updates Some feature discussions were also opened, feel free to provide your insights – it generally is useful to hear other people’s perspectives. SFML Games & Projects Zitrone First up, we […]
After the “historic” merge the other week, one might have expected to see SFML 2.6 being released within a week or two, but that’s not what happened so far, so lets have a look. SFML 2.6 Updates Thanks to the CMake SFML Project Template, we should see quite a few people actively using the 2.6.x […]