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#26 Where is allegro music? And allegro_message?
Hello.
Allegro 4 supports sounds and midi music. And there is an addon for mp3! That rocks!
Allegro 5 is suporting sounds now, waves, etc...
After searching a while, I saw that allegro 5 does not support music!!! Midis or mp3 or anything! What is a game without music? Tibia?
Some guys told me to found some other lib to make that, but I would like allegro to do that :)
Another thing is adding the allegro 4 'allegro_error' macro and 'allegro_message' function to allegro 5! How am I supposed to tell the player that a image file is missing? Or something with his sound system is wrong?
That is 2 suggestions that would fit very well in allegro 5 :)
Thank you!
Allegro5 supports ogg music just fine. As for allegro_error, theres al_get_errno which gives you libc errno style error codes.
I'd also say, MP3 and MIDI are both kinda stupid formats. Of course nothing speaks against a third party addon supporting them - it should be quite simple making a libmpeg or timidity wrapper. But music really should use OGG which we already support.
As for allegro_message, it would be trivial adding that to the native dialog addon.
Closing it. We do have something like allegro_message now, e.g. all the examples will pop up dialogs for error messages now. (And as for MP3 and MIDI format if someone makes an addon we'd support them in addition to OGG and FLAC of course.)