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- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] allegro 5 text routines and length parameter
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:40:50 +0100
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 04:30 -0700, Doug Eleveld wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just downloaded 4.9.2 to try to get an idea about
> the Allegro 5 text output API. What I noticed is that
> they expect a zero terminated string. This can be
> awkward in some cases and most similar libraries use a
> char* with an int length, where a length of -1 means
> to expect a zero-terminated string.
>
> Are there any plans to have a string length parameter
> in the Allegro 5 API? Or should I try to change it
> myself and submit a patch?
>
> best regards,
>
Can you give an example where this is a problem and the int length is an
advantage?
Anyway, I think we did not decide yet what to do with the string API.
Like, do we want to prefix the A4 string API with al_ and just use it in
A5 1:1?
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>