Re: [AD] Changes to aWiki

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 20 February 2006 13:13, Peter Wang wrote:
> Right, Bob and I disagreed on this.  I always thought of an AL_DISPLAY
> as a window: you can draw to it, yes, but you can also receive input
> from it, you can resize it, etc. 

That was my point of view as well.

> Bob probably thought it was okay if 
> the difference between a display (bitmap) and a "normal" bitmap was not
> reflected in the types, but I wanted the distinction.

I think it makes sense to have the distinction. It doesn't matter much for the 
display API as such, but I personally find it conceptually easier.

Evert