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- To: "Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro" <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_OPTIONS documentation
- From: "Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:37:37 -0700 (MST)
On Sat, February 21, 2009 9:16 am, Elias Pschernig said:
> Plus, what reason would you have in the first place to specify the exact
> pixel format? Something like 32-bit or 16-bit makes sense (at least, if
> you allow users to configure this) - but requesting BGR or RGB ordering
> just asks for your program to fail on some drivers which can only do
> one, or can only accelerate one.
Well if you're going to be using direct memory access, you'll probably want to specify
an exact format rather than support all possible formats you can get.
Trent :{)>