Re: [AL] Allegro/Windows Question

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Mike,

I don't think you're making many people smile by implying a lot of
Microsoft haters on the list.  You'd be surprised how many people are
actually using Visual C++ for Windows ports of their programs (even if
they do hate Microsoft).  MFC is a library of classes commonly used
with MSVC, so it stands to reason that since Allegro works on MSVC (I
am told by the website :) that you can use MFC along side it.

-nco

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike G." <the...@ho...>
To: "Allegro List" <al...@ca...>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 2:03 PM
Subject: [AL] Allegro/Windows Question

> Hi, it's me again.
>
> I was wondering if I could use Allegro with MFC.
>
> ::ducks behind chair to dodge the flying rocks from micro$oft
haters::
>
> I wanted to access the datafile functions, but still provide a nice
user
> friendly atmosphere. I find it a bit easier to use then allegro's
GUI.
>
> ::ducks again behind chair to dodge the flying rocks from micro$oft
haters::
>
> So can I use Allegro with MFC?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Mike G.
>
>

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Ben Davis, you have written:

> But if the user has specified DIGI_NONE, that means the program should be
> allowed to pretend to make sound, without making it, without causing errors.
> So I think the DIGI_NONE driver should permit 64 voices.
> 
> I'll make this change myself, unless someone complains :-)

That seems like a sensible solution. If you offer the user a list of
drivers (or they select one in allegro.cfg) it seems sensible to me to
allow DIGI_NONE to be selected, and then it should not give an error
on reserving more than 0 voices.

> Dummy driver functions are provided under the name of 'digi_none', and these
> are installed whenever no other sound driver is successfully installed.
> Calling the sound functions is perfectly safe, but don't expect voices to
> remember what you tell them :-)

Ah, that's good. That means I don't need to let my program stop on
failure of install_sound. I would like to see that added to the
documentation: I've been looking a long time in the docs to solve this
problem but I could not conclude if this was safe to do. I guess sound
is one of the few cases where this is applicable (graphics or timers
are too vital for a game to continue if they fail, usually), but it
would help if it were mentioned in the docs.

Hein Zelle

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Hi,

I bumped into the SDL library @ http://www.libsdl.org.=20

This is what it says:

"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library =
designed to
provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It is =
used
by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including =
the
award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." Simple
DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, =
and
FreeBSD."

Does anyone know about this? What are the main differences with =
Allegro?

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