Re: [AD] 5.2

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On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:31:11 -0400, SiegeLord <slabode@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anybody have any roadmap in mind towards it? In the coming week or 
> two I'm going to finish what I wanted to do with the vertex/index 
> buffers in the primitives addon and as far as I am concerned that's 
> enough features for it. I was also going to look into locked bitmaps 
> (they had some really inefficient things last time I glanced at them).
> 
> Are there big things to do elsewhere now? Anything partly unfinished 
> that I can help with?

The big one is the build system for the Android port.  I would like
(most) of the examples to build for Android on a Linux host.  They don't
have to run especially well, but once the examples are easily runnable
on a device we will surely flush out many bugs.  And, ultimately, users
should not need to manually set up an Android-specific project to use
the port.


Going through the 5.1 additions in the docs, here are some things:

* al_get_audio_event_source, as I wrote in January:

    The aqueue driver is the only one which emits these new events.
    [...]
    I think the events can and should be generated by the driver's
    solitary voice instead of a new special purpose audio event source.

* iphone specifics changes as mentioned in January

* I don't understand the documentation for
  ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_CONNECTED/DISCONNECTED.
  What is the relation of the "display" event source to the physical
  display?

* I think people are looking at the menu API now.

* audio recording API should be reviewed

* the video addon can be trimmed a bit I think

* (vague reservations about the auto-convert bitmap API still)

Peter




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