Overview

Version 4.0

Functions

• Initialization and Destruction
  
• Window functions
  Manage window.
• Input functions
  Functions for receiving events from keyboard, gamecontrollers and mouse.
• Image functions
  Load, create, draw and copy images.
• Sprite functions
  Animated images.
• Font and text functions
  Setting fonts and creating and loading formatted text.
• Audio functions
  Playing audio-files.
• Collision functions
  Accelerated checking for collisions of objects.
• Game-object functions
  Creating game-objects and -instances.
• Canvas functions
  Creating graphical user interfaces.
• Dialog functions
  Some common predefined canvasses.
• Network functions
  Networking for multiplayer games.
• Random functions
  Random numbers suitable for multiplayer games.
• Multilanguage functions
  Support for text in different languages.
• Hashing functions
  Support for hashes - array with strings as index.
• Actionstack functions
  A stack to prefer actions or objects temporaryly.
• Film functions
  Creating simple films.
• Miscellaneous functions
  Miscellaneous functions.

Creating a game

Compiling a game
To compile a game with VgaGames4 vgagames4-config or pkgconf can be used:
- vgagames4-config --cflags --libs
- pkgconf --cflags --libs vgagames4

Making a game independent of an installed VgaGames4-library
To make a compiled game independent of an installed VgaGames4-library,
- use: vgagames4-config --copylocal
- or: vgagames4-config --copylocal_with_midi
to create a subdirectory vgag4 containing all needed files
(see vgagames4-config --help)