Hi,

I'm on chapter 13 now of Focus on SDL and i still can't make a game in it...just some sounds and images (which I could already do with wxWidgets..and actually wxWidgets works on all of them and I can't get the sound samples to run in my linux and i settled for compiling SDL_image on my mac without jpg and tiff ... so so far i can do a lot more of the same stuff in wxWidgets even easier and more reliable)...and i'm wondering now if maybe SDL isn't the right choice -.-

Is Allegro as easy to learn? I like their license giftware Also their community looks a lot bigger or i just don't know where the SDL people go?

What about Clanlib? Is it as easy to use as SDL? Their site isn't as confidence inspiring as Allegro or SDL...appears more alpha to me..if that makes sense.

SDL isn't so hard after all. i wish their were more (and better) SDL only books though.

Also i'm getting the impression so far that SDL is just a basic library that other libraries create on top of, so should i be learning Allegro next or Clanlib? Or is SDL good enough to make 2D games on it's own? Which i'd prefer because I don't want to learn everything forever i'll never get anything made I spent the better half of last month learning encryption...