Re: [AD] ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_OPTIONS documentation

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Subject: Re: [AD] ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_OPTIONS documentation
From: Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:51:50 +0100

Elias Pschernig wrote:


   ALLEGRO_RENDER_METHOD,

This should be renamed or removed, in AllegroGL it was used to force HW
acceleration, but I don't see why you would have to do that. If my
software rendering is fast enough to run the game, why prohibit it?

It's useful to distinguish accelerated visual from the unaccelerated ones, worksonly on Windows. We could only allow querying for it. It should be set to 1 andSUGGEST in any case.

   ALLEGRO_SWAP_METHOD,

Not sure about this one, AllegroGL doesn't seem to have it - probably we
can remove it.

This one is new. It specifies a swap method involved behind al_flip_display(). Ithought it would be cool to know that even though you should never rely on it.



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References:
- [AD] ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_OPTIONS documentation
  - From: Trent Gamblin
- Re: [AD] ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_OPTIONS documentation
  - From: Elias Pschernig

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