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- To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] length-restricted text routines
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:29:08 +0200
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 16:41 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2008-09-13, Chris Robinson <chris.kcat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 September 2008 09:24:39 pm Peter Wang wrote:
> > > Can anyone think of a good use for the _count versions of textprintf_*
> > > functions?
> >
> > Some programming languages don't end strings with a NULL char and instead have
> > a length value (like D). Those languages would potentially make a copy to
> > pass to "normal" C string functions. Or if you only want to print a section
> > of a string, you can just add the offset to the pointer and adjust the length
> > accordingly, without having to copy. I could see it particularly being useful
> > for handling multi-line text.
>
> Yes, for the textout functions, but for textprintf? I'm finding it hard
> to think of a use case.
>
I agree. And if it was for me, we would completely get rid of all
al_textout* functions (as I said before). You can always use "%s" and
al_textprintf.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>