Re: [AD] Status update on things I'm supposed to be looking into

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 October 2008, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> Ok, so I've been bogged down with work a bit more these past few
> weeks, so I'll just update you guys on some of the things I said I'd
> look into:
>   * Renaming of functions in the audio API to bring in line with the
> rest of the lib: started, need to find a free evening to finish it.
> Hopefully next week.
>   * Fixing allegro5-config on OS X, at least from CMake (the list of
> linker libraries is mangled because it doesn't do the right thing for
> frameworks): I'm stumped. I can't work out how CMake builds up its
> own linker line, which is what I want to get from it. I may need to
> do it manually, which sucks.
>   * Adding '--addon foo bar baz'  switch for allegro5-config. Pending
> on the previous item, not going to be easy if I end up having to do
> that manually.
>   * Drawing up a timetable. I have one on paper, somewhere. I'll try
> digging it out and posting it for comments/ideas. I remember April
> 1st being shockingly close when I looked at it.
>
> Random other things I've been meaning to look at: some minor OS X
> annoyances, mostly having to do with hardware mouse cursors not
> working in full screen mode and an alternative to the OpenAL driver.
>
> In other news, I have a very basic proof-of-concept implementation of
> (part of) A4's API on top of A5. It doesn't aim for bug-for-bug
> compatibility and it doesn't allow direct access to bitmaps or
> anything that tries to poke at A4's internals. It obviously lacks
> palette support at the moment as well. On the plus side, some of A4's
> examples run a lot better on top of A5 than they do on top of A4.
> Is this the sort of level where we want a compatibility interface to
> live (palettes are something I'll want to do womething about though)?
> Second of all, do we want it as an "official" addon? I can make it
> into one, but it requires a bit of cleanup and it's not first on the
> list of things we need for A5.
>
> Related: do we want a port of the DIGMID driver for MIDI playback? I
> know I'd like it. Don't care too much about MIDI support otherwise.

If we can manage to get a more accurate midi player, yes please. A4's is 
awful. so is the code.

> Evert
>
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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