The Slick Wiki

Slick is a simple Java based 2D games development library. You can read more about it on the Slick homepage at http://slick.cokeandcode.com or discuss it at over at the forums.

This wiki is intended for documentation purposes and will contain the following information

• Overview
• Getting Started and Setup
• Game Containers and Basic Game
  • Controlling Game Updates
• Graphics Context
  • Clipping
  • Alpha Buffer
  • Fills and Gradients
• Images
  • Sprite Sheets
  • Packed Sprite Sheets
  • XML Packed Sprite Sheets (Pack-U-Like)
  • Animations
  • Image Buffer
  • Rendering to an Image
  • Saving
• Font Rendering
  • TrueType Font Support
• Sounds and Music
• Input Handling
  • Polling the current input state
  • Event driven input
  • Abstract Input - Commands
• Saving Local Settings
• Tile Map Support
  • TileD import and use
• Geometry
  • Geometry Morphing
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• State Based Games
• Particle Engine
  • Emitters
  • Configurable Emitters
  • Custom Configurable Emitters
  • The Pedigree Editor
• Color Image System
  • Color Image Editor
• Resource Loading
  • Deferred Resource Loading (getting a loading bar)
• Utilities
  • Path Finding
  • Logging
  • Buffered Image Utility
• Webstart
• Embedding in Swing
• Applets
• Using Slick Utilities without the Framework (LWJGL direct)
  • Texture Handling
  • slick-util Javadoc and Location
  • Sound with slick-util
  • Loading and binding openGL textures with slick-util
  • TrueType Font Support
• Embedding the Mozilla Rhino Javascript engine