Re: [AD] thoughts on a release

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue January 19 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Tue January 19 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2010-01-19, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Another thing that's arguably as important as those, is a
> > > > "capabilities" framework, so people can query what they can, and
> > > > can't do on a given computer.
> >
> > Was there a proposal somewhere?  What kind of capabilities did you have
> > in mind?
> 
> I think there might have been a proper proposal, but at any rate its been
> mentioned on IRC and the list a few times in the past.
> 
> What I think (and others seem to agree, SiegeLord, Elias, etc) is that
>  there should be a list of common capabilities exported via an allegro
>  API. So you can detect if there really is FAST hw acceleration (just
>  having GL work is no indication), things like NPOT textures, FBO's, and
>  other useful (but not always available) features should be advertised in
>  a cross platform manner (yes, I'm aware "FBO" is a GL term, but D3D
>  should have a corresponding feature).
> 
> This way people can detect what features are available, and provide
> different code paths, before objects are even created.
> 
> > > Oh yes, and not to forget making sure the X11 fullscreen driver
> > > actually works.
> >
> > I just tried it on a dual monitor setup.  It sets a fullscreen mode,
> > but it does it for both displays.  The Allegro window occupies the
> > whole of the primary display, but the window shows up with decorations
> > on the secondary display (4.4 does better here).  At exit, the original
> > dual monitor setup is not restored, although it does restore the
> > resolution (4.4 is the same here).
> >
> > I don't remember any problems on single monitor configurations.
> 
> There are other problems, XF86VidMode is starting to break on newer
>  drivers. So it will need to be replaced with XRandR+Xinerama eventually.

I'm not the one to work on the capabilities stuff, but I do have some 
experience working with both Xinerama and XRandR, so I will volunteer to 
work on that should no one else want to (as a last resort).

> > Peter
> >
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