Re: [AD] Allegro 4.3 file location API

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On 2005-11-15, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It would also be nice to be able to tell Allegro to magically look in
> those places when loading bitmaps, etc. For example,
> load_bmp("foo.bmp") would automatically look in APP_RESOURCES for the
> file if a relative path was given. That way you don't have to build
> the paths yourself every time.

I'm definitely against that.  At least it should be off by default.
In read mode it might just be misleading, but in write mode it could be
rather dangerous.

Peter





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