Re: [AD] allegro_message under X

[Julien Cugnière <jcugniere@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elias Pschernig a écrit :
> >  1. use the command line utility kdialog (or gdialog) if available
> >  2. use xdialog if available (maybe it is always available with X ?)
>
> I have neither of the 3, with the standard debian gnome desktop. I have
> "xmessage" though.

Hmm, sorry, my bad, I really meant xmessage instead of xdialog :-)

> But using xmessage directly should work just as well.

I agree.

> >  B. what's the best way to check for the existence of a command ? Try to
> > run it with system("kdialog...") and check the return status ?
>
> Sounds like a good way to me.

Ok.

> Oh, and what happens in fullscreen mode?

To quote the allegro_message documentation: "This function must only be used 
when you aren't in graphics mode". So we don't care, unless we want to add 
that feature to allegro_message.

-- 
Julien Cugnière