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- Subject: Re: [AD] Exorcising END_OF_MAIN for Allegro 5
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:40:30 -0600
On July 14, 2008, Peter Hull wrote:
> FWIW, SDL also has a magic main* and they do also have an event
> function, so there may be other issues which I'm not aware of.
>
> Pete
>
> * as far as I can tell from looking at the v1.2 source.
I'm not sure their magic main was ever a hard requirement though...
> On 7/14/08, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On July 14, 2008, Peter Hull wrote:
> > > On 7/14/08, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > So we aren't making people use the new event system? that would be
> > > > the optimal place to handle OS events...
> > >
> > > We are making people use it in the sense that there's no alternative
> > > but AFAIK they're not obliged to check events regularly - say during a
> > > long calculation or a cut-scene, on OSX the app will start to pinwheel
> > > if it doesn't respond to its events.
> >
> > Hmm, interesting. I'm not sure we should require checking regularly, but
> > a note in the docs would work.
> >
> > > Pete
> > >
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