Hi,
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Rink Springer VII wrote:
> > I was wondering if ALLEGRO could be used instead of glib.
Allegro is a multimedia library, while glib is a general-purpose utility
and portability library. You'll hardly be able to replace either of them
with the other ;-)
> > I'm
> > not sure what it would need to do (ALLEGRO that is), and I'm
> > not too sure how we should implement the connection between
> > the two. I'm pretty sure that glib and ALLEGRO would not
> > follow the same function interface, and I'm really sure that
> > there are huge differences between the two.
> Well, I figure it'd be best to either write our own graphics library (which is
> relatively easy to do, since 320x200x16 is not hard to do),
I'd recommend using 320x200x256, and not permanently limiting youself to
that mode (the fabled 0.3 release series may one day provide
resolutions than the classic 320x200 pixels).
> or use Allegro.
> Allegro has around all library functions we need...
I haven't found any handling of sound events, though; you may need to
either provide your own sound server or hack the Allegro sound system
accordingly. IIRC the Allegro license is somewhere along the lines of the
BSD/X licenses, with several non-legally-binding "encouragements", so this
shouldn't be a problem.
llap,
Christoph
