SDL open a remote imate

myrmidon · 10-17-2006, 02:38 PM

Hello everyone im developing a small apllication wich will load an image from an ipa based camera. i can access the image from my browser like http://root:admin@10.0.0.30/still.jpg

Now the thing is i need to access this image from SDL but the code below does not do the job:

image = IMG_Load("http://root:admin@10.0.0.30/still.jpg");

is there a possible solution for this problem ?

Thanks

xhi · 10-18-2006, 07:25 AM

afaik there is no functionality in sdl to transfer files. there is a networking lib, but its not aimed at file transfer. you are probably going to need to look into either an external program like wget, or find a library that allows you to download files. is that what curl does?

95se · 10-18-2006, 11:47 AM

Get the image data using curl or something like xhi suggested, then get an SDL_RWops structure using SDL_RWFromMem. Then use the IMG_Load_RW or IMG_Load*_RW (Where * is JPG, PNG, etc..).

Refrences:
http://jonatkins.org/SDL_image/SDL_image.html
http://www.kekkai.org/roger/sdl/rwops/rwops.html

myrmidon · 10-18-2006, 12:35 PM

thanx for reply, it helped .