Is SFML safe?
SFML is generally not thread-safe itself, but OS and third-party functions may be thread-safe. Regarding your specific question, since input/events and rendering don’t share anything, you can have both running in two different threads without any problem.
What is SFML used for?
Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a simple application programming interface (API) to various multimedia components in computers.
How do I link SFML libraries?
SFML is made of 5 modules (system, window, graphics, network and audio), and there’s one library for each of them. To link an SFML library, you must add “-lsfml-xxx” to your command line, for example “-lsfml-graphics” for the graphics module (the “lib” prefix and the “.
Is SFML hardware accelerated?
Re: Hardware acceleration for SFML drawing? SFML uses OpenGL so if your OpenGL renderer is on hardware (which is most probably true nowadays; i.e., it’s not a software renderer) then SFML will automatically be hardware accelerated. You don’t need to do any extra work here.
Does SFML support Vulkan?
Vulkan is supported in the next minor release; SFML 2.6. 0. The new sf::WindowBase class, serves as the base class for all Windows. It provides a simple interface for manipulating the window: move, resize, show/hide, control mouse cursor, etc.
Should I learn SFML?
Actually SFML is great, but it will be more and more amazing if you worked hard with it, SFML will not give you a lot of advanced options like XNA(C# coded), but that is not a bad thing ever ! that’s a great opportunity to release your creativity, problem solving, and how-to-do skills, for example, i made a menu.
Is OpenGL faster than SFML?
SFML is built on top of OpenGL, so the question is meaningless — of course SFML can’t be faster than OpenGL. The point of SFML is to provide an abstraction, so that you can get rid of tedious low-level code and get good results with good performance.