[AD] packfile_password semantics

[ Thread Index | Date Index | More lists.liballeg.org/allegro-developers Archives ]


It was found in a thread on allegro.cc that `save_bitmap' etc. don't
work right if you have called `packfile_password'.  IMHO, this is a
bug.  `packfile_password' "sets the encryption password to be used
for all future read/writes of compressed files", but I think it
should be changed so that the password state is saved during
`pack_fopen' into the PACKFILE structure.  Read/write operations
would use the state in the PACKFILE structure, rather than global
state.

Backward compatibility could very well be a problem.  If so, then we
can just add more warnings in the docs.

-- 
tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx - http://www.alphalink.com.au/~tjaden/
NERKLE (NUR kel), n.  One who leaves his Christmas lights up all year.
	-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"



Mail converted by MHonArc 2.6.19+ http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/