Re: [AD] allegro_message under X

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:40:03 +0200, Julien Cugnière
> <jcugniere@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > I know nothing about Xlib, so I prefer leaving that to someone who knows how
> > to do it right.
> >    
>
> The same thing could be said about a lot of things in Allegro. But
> Allegro's goal is to be self-maintainable (ie. not rely on outside
> programs). Besides, the source code to these programs should be freely
> available. Why not look them up and make our own implementation?

In this case, I think using xmessage is fine.  Less work for us, and 
falling back to stdout is okay.

> You
> could even add a config option to have KDE-styled dialog boxes, or
> Gnome-styled, or default X-styled, so it could match the user's
> system.
>  

That would be overkill.

Peter