Re: [AD] display option settings

[Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan Dickie wrote:
> A return value for the set option would be really useful.. especially 
> for a request.

There is now way to know whether the option is going to be set until the display 
is created.

> Would it be possible to do something less verbose and more like this? 
> Maybe a generalization for other systems as well...
>
> bool al_enable(option,sug|req); //possibly string options together using 
> 'or' ??
> bool al_disable(option,sug|req);
> bool al_set_value(option,val,sug|req);
> int al_get_value(option);

In general, we're against such OpenGL-like API I think. Maybe if it was specific 
to the OpenGL driver, but I'm quite sure that some of the options could also 
apply to the D3D driver.


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