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- To: "Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro" <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] Display options that aren't really options
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:58:22 -0600
On June 9, 2010, Milan Mimica wrote:
> On 9 June 2010 02:39, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I wasn't aware that that would make a real difference to the hardware.
> > Max texture size is max texture size is it not?
>
> No one can say for sure. There is also OpenGL3+ which could
> expose/hide some features...
>
> Maybe we should allow requesting minimum bitmap size with:
> al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_MAX_BITMAP_SIZE, <value>,
> ALLEGRO_REQUIRED) Then al_create_display() could give you D3D, OpenGL or
> some third driver if you don't specify a flag. That would be neat. It's
> same for some other options. After all, users should not care which
> driver is being used as long as they get all the required features.
>
> > Still aren't options regardless.
>
> I agree. But that's just a little inconsistency.
I thought the point of the new api was to get rid of all the little
inconsistencies?
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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx