Simple2D 1.13 now available

A new major release of Simple2D is now available (the download link can be found at the bottom of the page).

Version 1.13 is a small update with the following main changes:

• Visual Studio 2013 compatibility and pre-compiled binaries
• Significant usability updates to the Animation class
• A small number of new math & time functions
• Some bug fixes

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Simple2D 1.12 now available

A new major release of Simple2D is now available (the download link can be found at the bottom of the page).

Version 1.12 has a key focus on:

• An improved, cleaner initialization interface
• Basic Direct3D support including the ability to draw with both Direct2D and Direct3D onto the same render target
• Full editing support for text boxes (navigation, editing, selection, Windows clipboard and infinite undo)
• Some improvements to XInput gamepad support
• Numerous bug fixes

Simple2D 1.11 now available

A new major release of Simple2D is now available (the download link can be found at the bottom of the page).

Version 1.11 introduces 49 improvements and bug fixes with an emphasis on user interface coding. Improvements have been made to scene objects, user interface objects and object groups, experimental support for skinning has been added, as well as support for XInput-compatible gamepads.

Simple2D 1.10 now available

A new major release of Simple2D is now available (the download link can be found at the bottom of the page).

Version 1.10 introduces improved scene management, improved scene objects and user interface objects, object groups, customizable window resize and full-screen behaviour, more logical event dispatch, new time-based animation functions and a number of bug fixes.

SimpleFMOD 1.01 now available

SimpleFMOD 1.01 is now available.

Simple2D 1.07 now available

The latest version of my Direct2D-based graphics library Simple2D is now available.

This is mostly a bug fix release with a couple of minor enhancements.

SimpleFMOD 1.00 now available

Introducing the lazy way to use the acclaimed FMOD Sound System to get music and sound effects into your C++ games and applications – SimpleFMOD!

Initial feature list:

• Initialize FMOD, load and play a song in 4 lines of code
• Load audio from files or embedded application resources
• Basic audio playback controls: Start, stop, toggle/get/set pause, get/set volume, fade in and out
• Separate master volumes for music and sound effects
• Automatic memory management of all FMOD and audio resources. No pointers!
• Derive from a provided class to create custom audio resource types with their own behaviour
• Fetch raw pointers to the FMOD API and FMOD channels to allow audio manipulation not supported by SimpleFMOD

Simple2D 1.06 now available

The latest version of my Direct2D-based graphics library Simple2D is now available.

The main changes are targeting of Direct2D 1.1 and Direct3D 11.1 (and support of new features provided by these), improvements to geometry and window handling, migration of the library source code to Visual Studio 2012, new demos and a new installer. Run-time support for Windows Vista and compile-time support for Visual Studio 2010 is dropped (although it still compiles with warnings).