Showing a pSDL_SURFACE on TCanvas on form?

[Super Vegeta]

Frankly, I think it will be easier to do all the drawing in SDL and just have your editor work with two separate windows, the SDL-rendered one and the form-designer one. Just create a timer on the form to periodically check for SDL events and update the display surface if necessary, and that's pretty much all. You could, eventually, go with having all SDL-related stuff handled in a thread, but, in my own experience, that's too much of a complication in exchange for very little benefit.

[SilverWarior]

Doesent SDL_CreateWindowFrom alows you to use existing GUI window to render SDL content to so you don't have to create a new SDL window?

[Super Vegeta]

It is possible in SDL2. Glancing at the code, I think T-Bear is using SDL1, which does not allow that. Maybe with some awful hacking.

[paul_nicholls]

@T-Bear: maybe this can help?
http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...s-Delphi-forms

cheers,
Paul