Re: [AD] Windows Addition for Message Parsing

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On 8 Oct 2008, at 09:58, Elias Pschernig wrote:
Same. I'd be for removing ALLEGRO_DIRECT3D. The idea of ALLEGRO_OPENGL
is to indicate that a display created with it also should provide an
OpenGL context for its window. This is completely platform neutral, and
in theory orthogonal to whether Allegro itself uses OpenGL for its own
drawing or not. The flag only says "This program will use the OpenGL API to do rendering." - which, as far as I understand, always was one of the
base goals for A5 so we wouldn't have to clone the entire OpenGL API
ourselves. (ALLEGRO_DIRECT3D just is driver selection, which I think
should be done somewhere else.)


If that's the goal of the ALLEGRO_OPENGL flag then yes, I agree, that's a good thing. And indeed, it is OS neutral. ALLEGRO_DIRECT3D should be the default setting unless an OpenGL context is requested on Windows, shouldn't it? Why do we need it to begin with?

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