RE: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps

[Robert O. <ROh...@nv...>]

The line pointer is going away.

You'll need to call al_acquire_bitmap_region() first, which returns you
the equivalent of a line pointer.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: all...@li... [mailto:alleg-
> dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Chris Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:46 AM
> To: all...@li...
> Subject: Re: [AD] No more video/system bitmaps
>=20
> No more video/system bitmaps> I propose this modification to
> al_create_bitmap():
> > Remove the "type" parameter, and add a "usage" parameter.
>=20
> There would definitely need to still be a way of explicitly creating a
> memory bitmap. At the moment it's quite common to use create_bitmap
and
> then
> directly access its line[] array, knowing that it's safe to do so
because
> it's a memory bitmap.
>=20
> If it could randomly get promoted to a video bitmap then that could
really
> screw things up.
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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