Re: [AD] 4.2 final cleanup

[Peter Hull <peter.hull90@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Wang wrote:

> On 2005-09-21, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > There is one thing, or rather two things, that I think may be important. 
> > Both have to do with bugs Thomas Harte reported under MacOS X: one having 
> > to do with detection of gamepads, one having to do with 8 bit colour 
> > modes. I think Peter (Hull) had a fix for the first one, but I don't know 
> > about the second one. Do we want to have these fixed before release? Or do 
> > we note them down as `known issues' and push the fix into 4.2.1?
> >    
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> Peter?
Hi, sorry I've been on holiday all week. To summarize:
Gamepads: The issue was about decoding the output from the Mac's HID 
Manager into Allegro's joystick/stick/axis/button scheme. I have a fix 
that now works with my own gamepad, Thomas's set-up and some trial 
configurations that I invented. Thomas has a rather unusual 
configuration (IMHO) 2 (different) Playstation gamepads connected to a 
dongle, and the current Allegro code reads it as one device with 4 
sticks and 32 buttons. I will tidy up the code and post the patch; if 
anyone else finds a problem, then it can go into 4.2.1

8-bit: The video card on my system won't support 8 bit modes at all, so 
I can only have a look at the code and see if there's anything wrong. 
Note the problem apparently only occurs if the system is set to 8-bit, 
not just using Allegro's (default) 8-bit mode. This must be pretty rare 
in practice. For reference here is the link: 
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=517057#target

Also, is this one (pivot_sprite, turned out to be something to do with 
the fixed point arithmetic) fixed: 
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=525743#target

I think the best thing is if we agree what on the TODO is for 4.2.0 and 
what is for later.

Pete