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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Allegro 4.2.0 beta is ready and has been released. This is a beta release for Allegro 4.2.0 that adds features and corrects problems with regard to the 4.0 codebase. It is Changes said:
======================================================================== Peter Wang fixed many problems on AMD64 in Linux - it should now work fine. Peter Hull added CPU detection to the MacOS X port. Peter Hull fixed some problems related to /usr/local/bin not existing in Elias Pschernig and Peter Wang rewrote the Windows keyboard driver so it Elias Pschernig added a show_os_cursor function as an alternative to Evert Glebbeek and Peter Wang added an example programme for system cursors. Elias Pschernig fixed a deadlocks in X11 related to scare_mouse() and Daniel Schlyder fixed the gcc -mcpu is deprecated warnings. Peter Wang added an astdint.h, which provides C99 typedefs for pre-C99 AJ added detection for DirectX 8 and 9 to the Windows port. Evert Glebbeek added detection for AMD64 to the UNIX port and test Elias Pschernig added a get_midi_length function and a midi_time variable. Elias Pschernig fixed a problem where Allegro would ignore a user-specified Evert Glebbeek added a transpose_font function. Evert Glebbeek added support for true colour fonts and a font example. Elias Pschernig fixed a problem in shutdown_dialog() reported by Tobi Marcio Fialho fixed some issues with displaying author names in the demo Andrei Ellman fixed a problem in the MSVC makefile when building Allegro Daniel Schlyder fixed (again) problems with creating directories in Elias Pschernig added documentation for the custom packfile functions. Jeff Mitchell fixed the location of grabber.txt in the spec file. Harshavardhana Reddy added a Kannada greeting to exunicod. Elias Pschernig cleaned up the example programmes. Peter Wang made it possible to disable the hardware cursor in X by passing AJ and Michal Molhanec added an MSVC 7 configure option and added an msvc7 Mr_Bones fixed compilation of setup.c when --disable-ossdigi is used AJ fixed a beep being generated in Windows when alt+character was pressed Peter Wang fixed many oversights and problems in the library and examples and Peter Wang fixed problems compiling the Windows port with WARNMODE=1 Tore Halse fixed compilation problems in Windows related to TITLEBARINFO. Daniel Schlyder made the Windows port use TITLEBARINFO if it is available. Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz made many improvements to the documentation. Please download and test this! Report any bugs, incompatibilities, documentation inaccuracies even if they have been reported before: it is very important that these are fixed before 4.2.0 stable is released. Please provide an example programme that demonstrates the problem and if possible help to locate and fix the problem. You can reposrt bugs on the forums, but browsing through a long thread for this is combersome so it would be better to post the problem on the mailing list or the tracker. I would also like to remind you all of the Allegro demo competition which is still open and encourage everyone to contribute a better demo game! Some closing remarks: depending on how many problems are reported, there may be more betas after this one. Following the betas there will be at least one release candidate to iron out final problems before full release. EDIT: I guess we will have a second beta, too many loose ends on the makefile and installation front. |
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Steve++
Member #1,816
January 2002
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Evert, the Nintendo DS and GameCube versions don't compile with the latest devkitARM (couldn't find <myds.h> and <gclib.h>). I had to go two versions back. The examples run just fine on both systems though - tested on real hardware, not just emulators. Is anyone having any problems building for the PS2, PSP or XBox? |
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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I don't believe you (notice date). -- |
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miran
Member #2,407
June 2002
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Quote: I don't believe you (notice date). What did I download and compile then? Evert: make install doesn't work on MinGW (on WinXP) Quote:
e:\allegro4.2.0b1>make install
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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Quote: make install doesn't work on MinGW (on WinXP)
My point exactly! On a somewhat more serious but yet completely off-topic note, try not releasing things on April 1 if you can avoid it. Anyway, good job. I'll check it out later. -- |
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Daniel Schlyder
Member #257
April 2000
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Quote: make install doesn't work on MinGW (on WinXP) Search for "mdhelper" in makefile.all and prepend "misc\" or download the beta again. |
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Milan Mimica
Member #3,877
September 2003
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allegrogl's example exalpfnt displays broken text when using 4.2.0b [edit:]
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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Whether or not this is an april fool joke I'd expect some credit for the true color font routines. -- |
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Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003
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miran
Member #2,407
June 2002
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Quote: Don't be cruel now... Spellcaster added true colour font support a looong time ago... -- |
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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Including a nice function that allows you to create gradient true color fonts from mono and bitmap fonts. -- |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: try not releasing things on April 1 if you can avoid it.
You don't think that was a coincidence, do you? Quote: make install doesn't work on MinGW (on WinXP) My bad. I'll upload a fixed version in a few moments. Quote: allegrogl's example exalpfnt displays broken text when using 4.2.0b AllegroGL CVS or WIP? Could be a problem with AllegroGL rather than Allegro, but we'll need to look into it. Quote: alsa volume fix is not mentioned in changes You're right. It is mentioned in the authors file though. Quote: Including a nice function that allows you to create gradient true color fonts from mono and bitmap fonts.
Sorry, I didn't incorporate that into the library. |
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Steve++
Member #1,816
January 2002
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If 23 was here the April fool's joke wouldn't have been debunked in the next post. This forum just isn't what it used to be |
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HoHo
Member #4,534
April 2004
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About the AGL problem, it should be caused by agl itself. From agl newsletter I found Quote: AllegroGL incorrectly detects allegro vesion at some places (triggered with allegro-4.2.0b). Patch attached.
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: AllegroGL incorrectly detects allegro vesion at some places (triggered with allegro-4.2.0b). Patch attached.
That's fast. I'm impressed! |
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spellcaster
Member #1,493
September 2001
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Quote: Sorry, I didn't incorporate that into the library. I just meant that mentioning me at all would have been a nice thing... I mean, it's based on my True Color routines, isn't it? -- |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: I just meant that mentioning me at all would have been a nice thing...
Yeah, you're right. Should be added to the AUTHORS and thanks file. I'll do that. |
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Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003
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Evert said: That's fast. I'm impressed! Real-time patching! spellcaster said: Including a nice function that allows you to create gradient true color fonts from mono and bitmap fonts. Nice. So, is the gradient vertical? Does it support an alpha channel? Bah, don't bother answering; I'm too excited right now. I just start asking questions... I'll find out for myself. |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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on here, make was fine, now make install ran mdhelper and started rebuilding everything |
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Daniel Schlyder
Member #257
April 2000
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Quote: on here, make was fine, now make install ran mdhelper and started rebuilding everything Err, what? |
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Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003
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That doesn't make sense... Quote:
D:\MinGW\source\allegro>make install DEBUGMODE=1 The directory separator shouldn't be an issue... I'm at a loss. MinGW, WinXP. |
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Daniel Schlyder
Member #257
April 2000
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Did you test it? If you run misc/mdhelper.bat from standard Windows shell, it won't work. At least not on Windows XP. Backslash works fine, though. |
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Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003
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Daniel Schlyder
Member #257
April 2000
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Well, I just sent the following patch to the dev list, as Evert suggested there might be a problem with using slashes under Cygwin. (My original patch had the mdhelper scripts in Allegro's root dir.) I've tested this under standard Windows shell and MSYS.
EDIT: Of course, you'll have to manually apply this, as "cvs up" hasn't given me the "misc" prefixes yet. EDIT2: Quote: There are foreslashes everywhere else, though! Not to run programs, I bet. EDIT3: Sigh, forget about that patch. Windows 9x doesn't support "&". So, then either the mdhelper scripts must be moved to root or, hopefully, there's no problem with slashes and Cygwin. |
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Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003
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It is rather specific and probably best in an addon, I think...
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