December 13th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in 1 | No Comments »
Elements Interactive just released the 2.95 version of their Edge SDK. The Edge SDK is an SDK to help rapidly develop native mobile games for Symbian S60, UIQ, Windows Mobile and similar platforms. In this version, sound support and word wrapping is included. More details in the press release below.
Elements Interactive Releases Edge SDK 2.95 Adding Sound Class And Word Wrap Support
Almere, the Netherlands — December 13th, 2006 — Elements Interactive B.V. releases version 2.95 of its multi-platform mobile game engine Edge. This new version adds a sound class and word wrapping support.
The Edge SDK 2.95 release, concluding the 2.x version range, adds a platform independent sound class for playing both sound effects and MOD music files. The sound class is implemented as a wrapper class and provides an easy to use interface for existing multi-platform sound libraries.
The SDK includes a ready-to-use interface for the excellent and free available Hekkus Sound System by Thomas Maniero. Other sound libraries can be added by creating a custom wrapper interface. The default "silent" interface is also available if no external sound library is used.
Besides playing back and getting and setting the volume, the sound class includes additional features, such as cross-fading, improved loading and unloading of audio and enhanced minimizing and muting control.
Another addition to the SDK is a word wrap feature, to break long lines of text in multiple lines when drawing text using the new DrawFontWrap function. A parameter is available to set the desired width at which the text should wrap.
The new Edge SDK release also features improved platform support of the Edge IDE building tool, a bugfix for the Bluetooth implementation on Symbian Series 80, backlight control for Symbian and Windows Mobile, a random number generator, functions to record and playback events useful for debugging and other enhancements and bugfixes. A full list of additions and bugfixes can be found on the product website located at http://www.edgelib.com.
Edge licensees are entitled to download and install the commercial version of the new Edge SDK. An evaluation version can be downloaded for free as well.
The Edge SDK supports the development of mobile applications and games for Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, Symbian Series 60, Series 80, Series 90, Symbian UIQ, the Gamepark Holdings GP2X console and Windows desktop. Key features include true multi-platform development, high-performance graphics, RGBA surfaces and PNG support for all platforms, 3D graphics, both Bluetooth and TCP/IP networking and support for Symbian 9.1, Windows Mobile 5.0 and DirectX.
More information about the Edge SDK can be found on http://www.edgelib.com.
