Re: [AD] Overloading Alert

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Schlyder wrote:

> Chris:
>  
>
> > Hmm.. perhaps we could modify allegro_message to use a popup GUI dialog
> > when in a gfx mode?
> >    
>
> I like the idea, but...
>
>  
>
> > #define BUTTON_TEXT "\some-special-escape-sequence"
> > allegro_message("This is a message box\nPh34r" BUTTON_TEXT "Click Me!");
> >    
>
> ...YUCK! :)
>
> Why not just add allegro_message_ex(), with separate parameters for message
> and button text, and deprecate allegro_message()?
>  

I personally don't like the idea of adding anything to 
allegro_message().  It would only encourage its use beyond being a last 
ditch effort to show something to the user when you can't set a video mode.

Peter