3. Recommendations for a GUI in C, for text positioning on screen and geometric sha...

Recommendations for a GUI in C, for text positioning on screen and geometric shape/pixel/plotting drawing?

Thanks u/dqUu3QlS!

I think SDL is exactly what I'm looking for!

I was just looking over the website and noticed it stands for "Simple DirectMedia Layer" so that's what I wanted: nice simple graphics and text handling/positioning abilities.

I also noticed that it is based in part on a graphics library called "OpenGL" (which is itself written in C, interestingly enough!).

I'm not very familiar with the concept of graphics libraries, but now I'm suddenly thinking maybe I should bite the bullet and learn OpenGL entirely, as I think it just might come in useful on some future projects?

Do you think that might be a good idea to learn OpenGL? Or is learning OpenGL to a decent level a much bigger project then I might be anticipating?

Also if I do want to learn in a graphics library in detail, do you know if OpenGL is the library I should focus on the most, or is there perhaps a better graphics library that might be used more widely and even be in higher demand jobs wise?

Anyways, sorry for the bombardment of questions!

But yes, for now, I think SDL is exactly perfect for what I need now, and what I'm looking for!

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