Re: [Plib-devel] Release 1.8.5....and a glimpse of the future.

[Jan R. <slo...@gm...>]

Am Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:29:36 -0600 schrieb Steve Baker <st...@sj...>:

> > but rewriting all the GUI code would be impossible. And I'm quite happy
> > with it, so why change it? I hope that we still can get a PLIB-1.8.x
> > release every now and then even after PLIB-2.0 is born, just in case bad
> > bugs have been fixed.
> 
> The reason to change is that OpenGL is changing.

I never questioned a general rewrite of SSG. I was only talking for my own
PLIB application which will happily live with 1.8.x as long as there's a
GFX card driver that supports the current OpenGL features.

I also support the idea of switching to OpenAL. Just one question: Does OpenAL
support audio input? This is a feature found in only a few portable audio
libraries (e.g. in PortAudio), and I think it's a valuable feature (CRRCsim
uses PortAudio to sample PPM signals from r/c transmitters; and just think
of the Nintendo DS, where many great games make use of the built-in mic).

Another feature I really missed in 1.8.x was proper full-screen support in
PW. But I guess there's no need to rewrite PW to work with the new PLIB.

Kind regards,
Jan R.

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