[AL] Allegro 4.1.17 WIP released

[Evert G. <eg...@dd...>]

Allegro 4.1.17 WIP has been released. Get it from the Allegro SoureForge 
page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/alleg/. Also see http://
alleg.sourceforge.net/.

This release is a Work-In-Progress release that adds features
and corrects problems with regard to the 4.0 codebase. It is
API (source) compatible with 4.0.0 on every platform, except
for a few minor changes (see docs/html/api.html).

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============ Changes from 4.1.16 to 4.1.17 (December 2004) ============
=======================================================================

   Sven Sandberg fixed a few problems with the sprite rotation code.

   Sven Sandberg optimized blitting between different colour depths.

   Evert Glebbeek added support for the use of native window manager 
cursors.

   Chris Robinson made install_allegro() check if the library version 
matches
   the version of the headerfiles installed.

   Peter Wang fixed some problems with rest() on UNIX systems.

   Evert Glebbeek added an is_windowed_mode() function.

   Elias Pschernig added the scancode_to_name function.

   Elias Pschernig made rest use usleep() on MacOSX.

   Chris Robinson fixed the incorrect use of -export-dynamic on UNIX

   Elias Pschernig, Chris Robinson and Peter Wang fixed XOR mode leaving 
   droppings in X11.

   Elias Pschernig fixed several dependency issues.

   James Lohr fixed a problem with mouse acceleration in fullscreen modes 
under
   Windows.

   Peter Wang fixed a problem in the TGA loader.

   Lennart Steinke contributed keyboard layout detection code for Windows.

   Peter Wang fixed a bug that caused Allegro to crash if it failed to 
   initialize.

   Peter Wang fixed a deadlock related to X vsync emulation.

   Daniel Schlyder fixed make uninstall with mingw make.

   Elias Pschernig fixed QNX issue of not including utimer.c

   Angelo Mottola fixed compilation problems on BeOS and fixed the 
detection
   of VRAM.

   Evert Glebbeek fixed compilation problems on *BSD.

   Elias Pschernig made the X11 window hidden in GFX_TEXT mode.

   Peter Wang removed remapping of numpad keys when NumLock was off in 
Linux

   David A. Capello made override_config_file also be used for writing to 
the 
   config file.

   Julien Cugniere added an X11 message box for allegro_message under X11.

   Vitaliy Chetverikov a small bug in the GUI where the return value of 
   MSG_IDLE was ignored.

   Peter Wang made several improvements to the examples.

   Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz made a lot of improvements to the 
documentation.

   Elias Pschernig made make-install not build examples.

   Peter Wang fixed several instances of symbols not declared static that 
should
   have been.

   Elias Pschernig replaced the X11 keyboard driver with a new XIM driver.

   Peter Wang fixed a problem with Linux headers and Allegro headers both
   declaring KEY_ constants, as pointed out by David A. Capello.

   Elias Pschernig fixed X11 async reply in DGA2 mode detection due to 
missing 
   XLOCK/XUNLOCK

   Peter Wang fixed problems in ex3buf, which was trying to lock symbols 
which 
   had been removed.

   Elias Pschernig cleaned up grabber/dat documentation.

   Daniel Schlyder added ALLEGRO_LIB_BUILD flag for gcc variants not using 
   configure.

   Elias Pschernig fixed bugs in matrix_to_quat and get_align_matrix.

   Evert Glebbeek fixed a problem with the X11 port when 
   ALLEGRO_MULTITHREADED was not defined.

   Matthew Leverton added support for a fourth mouse button to the Windows 
port.

   Michal Molhanec added a faq section about the giftware license.

   Elias Pschernig added the license disclaimer to the docs.

   Evert Glebbeek added missing vtable entries for AllegroGL, as requested 
by 
   Robert Ohannessian.

   Dustin Dettmer spotted a typo in save_bitmap.

   Sam Hocevar removed deprecated use of init_read_test, test_byte_read, 
etc.

   Peter Wang fixed a bug in the Windows keyboard driver.