How do I use Qt and SDL together?

Question

I am building a physics simulation engine and editor in Windows. I want to build the editor part using Qt and I want to run the engine using SDL with OpenGL.

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Answer 1

This is a simplification of what I do in my project. You can use it just like an ordinary widget, but as you need, you can using it's m_Screen object to draw to the SDL surface and it'll show in the widget :)

#include "SDL.h"
#include 

class SDLVideo : public QWidget {
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    SDLVideo(QWidget *parent = 0, Qt::WindowFlags f = 0) : QWidget(parent, f), m_Screen(0){
        setAttribute(Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen);
        setUpdatesEnabled(false);

        // Set the new video mode with the new window size
        char variable[64];
        snprintf(variable, sizeof(variable), "SDL_WINDOWID=0x%lx", winId());
        putenv(variable);

        SDL_InitSubSystem(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_NOPARACHUTE);

        // initialize default Video
        if((SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) == -1)) {
            std:cerr << "Could not initialize SDL: " << SDL_GetError() << std::endl;
        }

        m_Screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 8, SDL_HWSURFACE | SDL_DOUBLEBUF);
        if (m_Screen == 0) {
            std::cerr << "Couldn't set video mode: " << SDL_GetError() << std::endl;
        }
    }

    virtual ~SDLVideo() {
        if(SDL_WasInit(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0) {
            SDL_QuitSubSystem(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
            m_Screen = 0;
        }
    }
private:
    SDL_Surface *m_Screen;
};

Hope this helps

Note: It usually makes sense to set both the min and max size of this widget to the SDL surface size.