Re: [AD] allegro5 gui

["Ryan Dickie" <goalieca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On March 2, 2008, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez wrote:
> IIRC at Allegro.cc forums somebody said that Allegro 5 will not have a
> GUI system. I think it was the right decision.

It won't ever be in the core, we've learned a smaller core is better for
everyone.

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The goal is to make something nice that people will use. I'm not
thinking about anything like GTK/QT/Win32. Mostly just buttons and a
text-input. Fancy buttons of any shape (just throw some bitmaps at it).

On a related note I've thrown all the buttons/widgets in a thread of their own. 
But i have a problem...

al_get_pixel segfaults if i call it from the gui thread. I use
get_pixel to find the bitmap's alpha value (after mapping to rgba) at the mouse coordinate.
Weird shaped buttons use alpha=0 to avoid collision. Right now it works perfectly fine if i call it from the main thread. I
guess it is easy enough to put al_gui_update() under the three mouse
events (or a gui timer event).

--ryan