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On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 00:10 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> >
> > A third option would be to include a small common.c from all examples,
> > which implements a function to display a window with an error message
> > and exit (al_create_display should be failsafe enough to be used for
> > this).
>
> I prefer this last option. On Linux I would like messages just to go to
> standard output/error, at least as an option (e.g. set an environment
> variable). allegro_message really annoyed me when testing examples for
> a release. I would run an example and it would pop up a message box to
> tell me usage information, which I'd have to focus and click to close.
>
What about a cmake option? Depending on what the option is set to, all
examples depend on the native dialogs addon and the example_error()
function in common.c will display a message in a window - or it simply
does a printf.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>