Re: [AD] Leveraging the OS' window management

[Martijn Versteegh <m.versteegh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>I don't recall everything, but what I wanted at the time was
>to be able to create, place, and draw into windows in a
>platform independant way. On top of that, Shawn thought this
>could be a byproduct of allowing Allegro to draw into native
>windows, which would be quite nice.
>IIRC, the main contention was: what will happen with DOS :)
>(eg, it has no WM, so do we implement a basic WM for it ?)
>I guess it could just return NULL when al_create_window is
>called, though Burton Radons had created a nice little thing
>IIRC. There were other people (Martijn Versteegh I think)
>with likewise code.
There was some disagreement if we should put a simple wm inside allegro
as a fallback so al_create_window() would never have to return NULL,
or if we should leave that to an add on and make al_create_window()
in some way 'hookable'.

I remember that I was a strong supporter of the latter then, while
Burton Radons was a strong supporter of the former.