Re: [AD] Screen update API again

[Peter W. <tj...@oz...>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

>A while back we discussed what we wanted to do with the screen update API 
>in terms of it supporting things like triple buffering, double buffering 
>etc. through a single interface.
>I think concensus was that we wanted to go in the direction of the proposed 
>Allegro 5 API, but I don't know how finalized this was. In the mean time, 
>it may also be interesting to look at the code Chris Barry has written 
>(although it doesn't look too different from the code that other Chris 
>posted earlier):
>http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=397489&#target
>with a few modifications, I think this could go into Allegro - if we don't 
>have other plans for the gfx API.
>
>Ideas? Comments?
>
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>

There's nothing really complicated in the proposed API, so maintaining 
compatibility for it in future won't be any harder than maintaining 
compatibility with the underlying Allegro 4 functions used in the 
implementation.  So from that POV it would be ok.

Whether it *should* be included, I dunno.  It depends on how many people 
want something like that, and why it can't just be an addon.

Maybe we should pull out the "official" or "common" addons idea out 
again.  A bunch of addons lumped into a single build process, and hosted 
on the Allegro website (but not necessarily maintained by core Allegro 
developers, though -- maybe some Allegro.cc regulars could be recruited).

Some suggestions for the name: AllegroPlus, AllegroEnhanced, AllegroEx...

Peter