[AD] Allegro 4.2.0: The Final Frontier

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Or something like that ;)

Attached is a diff of the CHANGES and THANKS that would go into a 4.2.0 
RC3, I'll commit these regardless and then upload the release for internal 
revision and double checking (Grzegorz' trace patch can go in as far as 
I'm concerned).
If it checks out, I propose to finally drop the RC by the end of the week 
and be done with it!

Evert

Index: docs/src/changes._tx
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RCS file: /cvsroot/alleg/allegro/docs/src/changes._tx,v
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diff -u -r1.51 changes._tx
--- docs/src/changes._tx	28 Aug 2005 02:29:07 -0000	1.51
+++ docs/src/changes._tx	30 Oct 2005 20:00:37 -0000
@@ -8,6 +8,75 @@
 @html_spaced_list_bullet
 
 @heading
+Changes from 4.2.0 RC2 to 4.2.0 RC3 (October 2005)
+<ul><li>
+   Peter Wang made fixmul() detect overflows as it used to do in the 4.0.x
+   branch.
+<li>
+   Dennis Busch found a bug where d_clear_proc would not work properly if the
+   GUI target bitmap is	different from screen.
+<li>
+   Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz made Allegro log all TRACE output with a prefix 
+   in the format "al-system level: ". This makes it easier to grep debug logs.
+<li>
+   Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz made dialogs with MSG_CHAR/MSG_UCHAR handlers
+   honor a D_CLOSE return flag without a D_USED_CHAR.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull fixed problems with the mouse position as reported by Allegro and 
+   the mouse position as known to OS X.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull made Command-Q not close the application if no exit-button
+   callback is registered.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull fixed problems with joysticks under MacOS X as reported by
+   Thomas Harte.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull fixed a bug preventing more than one Allegro application from 
+   being run at a time on Mac OS X. Reported by Thomas Harte.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull did a lot of other things for the MacOS X port too.
+<li>
+   Jiri Gabriel fixed loading of multiple ranges in a single bitmap with txt 
+   fonts.
+<li>
+   Milan Mimica and Jiri Gabriel fixed several bugs in extract_font_range.
+<li>
+   Dennis Busch fixed a Unicode bug in the mode selector.
+<li>
+   Evert Glebbeek added FA_ALL and FA_NONE file attribute flags.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull fixed a deadlock in OS X when calling vsync() while the screen 
+   was acquired.
+<li>
+   Robert Alfonso fixed a grabber crash when importing a new font range into an
+   existing font. Reported by Milan Mimica.
+<li>
+   Chris Robinson fixed the fileselector in UNIXnot properly recognising 
+   filenames containing UTF-8 characters.
+<li>
+   Hrvoje Ban and Peter Wang wrote a documentation section that explains
+   several common mistakes.
+<li>
+   Elias Pschernig disabled DGA auto-detection under X11
+<li>
+   i_am_drv added support for .rmi midis to the midi reader
+<li>
+   Elias Pschernig fixed a fix-point overflow in pivot_sprite.
+<li>
+   Michal Molhanec fixed several problems with the Watcom compiler.
+<li>
+   Peter Hull fixed an error with 'make uninstall' on MacOS X.
+<li>
+   Matthew Leverton added a programs: makefile target.
+<li>
+   Many small fixes and improvements by Michal Molhanec, Peter Hull, Chris 
+   Robinson, Peter Wang and Elias Pschernig.
+<li>
+   Documentation improvements by Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz, Tore Halse and 
+   Peter Hull.
+</ul>
+
+@heading
 Changes from 4.2.0 RC1 to 4.2.0 RC2 (August 2005)
 <ul><li>
    Grady Martin made the grabber consider deleting object properties as a
Index: docs/src/thanks._tx
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RCS file: /cvsroot/alleg/allegro/docs/src/thanks._tx,v
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diff -u -r1.71 thanks._tx
--- docs/src/thanks._tx	18 Sep 2005 11:34:55 -0000	1.71
+++ docs/src/thanks._tx	30 Oct 2005 20:00:38 -0000
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@
 
    Deepak T (<email>coolbool@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Fixed clipping in three C sprite drawing routines.
+   
+   Dennis Busch (email unknown).<br>
+   Fixed a bug in d_clear_proc and fixed a Unicode bug in the mode selector.
 
    Dmitriy Kazimirow (<email>mariann@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Provided the Russian keyboard mapping and message translation files.
@@ -388,8 +391,12 @@
    system many times and did plenty of other things too.
    
    Hrvoje Ban (email unknown).<br>
-   Pointed out a bug in the mode selector, fixed several double ;'s and
-   fixed ASSERT() in Windows.
+   Pointed out a bug in the mode selector, fixed several double ;'s, fixed 
+   ASSERT() in Windows and helped write a documentation section about common
+   pitfalls.
+   
+   i_am_drv (email unknown).<br>
+   Added support for .rmi MIDI files to the MIDI loader.
 
    Igor Gnip (<email>gnipi@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Removed the requirements for fileutils on DOS/Windows platforms and added
@@ -455,6 +462,10 @@
 
    Jim Grainger (<email>Grainger_Jim/world_europe_samuro_WYN-CTV@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Spotted a broken link in the docs and updated it.
+   
+   Jiri Gabriel (email unknown).<br>
+   fixed loading of multiple ranges in a single bitmap with txt fonts and helped
+   fix an off-by-one mistake for the last glyph in extract_font_range.
 
    Joaquin Hierro Diaz (<email>Joaquin.Hierro.Diaz@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Made the mapping table for Spanish keyboards.
@@ -681,7 +692,9 @@
 
    Milan Mimica (<email>milan.mimica1@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Fixed bugs in the keyconf utility, the alsa 9 volume settings and
-   extract_font_range().
+   extract_font_range(), helped fix an off-by-one mistake for the last glyph
+   in extract_font_range and fixed a bug where a font would be converted to 8
+   bit.
 
    Miran Amon (<email>miran.amon@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Fixed an undocumented arbitrary limit in get_config_argv()
@@ -852,7 +865,8 @@
    Roberto Alfonso (<email>rpgrca@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Fixed a couple of memory problems in the dat2c utility, added an
    srand() call in the demo game, made the MSVC port call `link /lib'
-   rather than `lib' and fixed several warnings with GCC 4 under DJGPP.
+   rather than `lib', fixed several warnings with GCC 4 under DJGPP and
+   fixed a grabber crash when importing a font range in an existing font.
 
    Robin Burrows (<email>rburrows@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Provided a new page flipping code for the DirectDraw subsytem, added a
@@ -975,8 +989,8 @@
    Wrote the ALSA 0.5.x MIDI driver and added support for ALSA 0.9.x.
    
    Thomas Harte (email unknown).<br>
-   Helped fix a bug in show_video_bitmap() on MacOS X and helped optimise
-   fixmul().
+   Helped fix a bug in show_video_bitmap() on MacOS X, helped optimise fixmul()
+   and helped find many bugs in the MacOS X port.
 
    Thomas Klausner (<email>wiz@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Added NetBSD detection and fixed a problem with the allegro.m4 macro and
@@ -1017,7 +1031,8 @@
    aggressive Sidewinder joystick driver.
 
    Tore Halse (<email>gnolam@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
-   Made Allegro windows always popup centred in Windows.
+   Made Allegro windows always popup centred in Windows and made fixes to the
+   documentation.
 
    V Karthik Kumar (<email>karthikkumar@xxxxxxxxxx</a>).<br>
    Added a Tamil language greeting to exunicode, added switches to use