Re: [AD] BeOS joystick, Gnome Panel

[George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:05:48AM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> I'm not sure why Open() returns 3 -- the API docs say that functions
> should return 0 on no error, or a negative number corresponding to an
> error code, so I'm not sure how to interpret "3" -- in any case,
> CountSticks() is documented to return "the number of joysticks connected
> to the opened game port."

Maybe 3 is still an error code, and the reason CountSticks
returns 1 is that the port wasn't properly opened in the first
place.  What is the return code when you actually have a
joystick plugged in, and which step fails if you disable the
joystick ports?

> One other issue: on Debian Linux (unstable) using XFree 4 and Gnome, any
> program using Allegro will, upon exiting,  cause the Gnome tasklist to
> crash, with the message: "Tasklist applet appears to have died
> unexpectedly. Reload this applet?" No matter how many of them are
> running, it kills them all. Can anyone think of anything particularly
> dastardly that Allegro does atexit() that would cause this?

It's a known problem, I think other programs have it too, and
all blame the Gnome tasklist for being flaky. :)

> P.S. Where is Shawn?

Prague. :)  He was meant to leave yesterday.

> When I read these mailing lists in the past, he was
> very involved in the discussion, now he seems conspicuously absent. Has
> he resigned or taken a break from any major development on Allegro?

One of the two.  The main difference between now and then is
that now he is neither a student (like when Allegro started) nor
in a crap job (like two years ago, during the initial work
towards Allegro 4). :)  He gets plenty of interesting things to
do at work (and does more than enough tech support for the other
people using his tools), and probably doesn't much feel like
programming (or discussing things) when he gets home as well.
It's possible that over time, under these circumstances, his
interest in Allegro has diminished too.

George

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