Announcement Thread

Ports:

• Trent Gamblin started a port to the GP2X Wiz handheld console.

Graphics:

• Some OpenGL bitmap routines were not checking whether the target bitmap was locked.

  
  

• Scaled bitmap drawer was not setting the blend mode.

  
  

• Fixed a bug where al_map_rgb followed by al_unmap_rgb would return different values.

  
  

• Fixed problems with sub-sub-bitmaps.

  
  

• Fixed window placement on OS X, which did not properly translate the coordinates specified by the user with al_set_new_window_position().

  
  

• Made is_wgl_extension_supported() fail gracefuly.

  
  

• Added ALLEGRO_ALPHA_TEST bitmap flag.

  
  

• Minor optimizations in some memory blitting routines.

Input:

• Replaced (ALLEGRO_EVENT_SOURCE *) casting with type-safe functions, namely al_get_keyboard_event_source, al_get_mouse_event_source, al_get_joystick_event_source, al_get_display_event_source, al_get_timer_event_source, etc.

  
  

• Made it so that users can derive their own structures from ALLEGRO_EVENT_SOURCE. al_create_user_event_source() is replaced by al_init_user_event_source().

  
  

• Fixed a problem on Windows where the joystick never regains focus when tabbing away from a window.

  
  

• Fixed a problem with missing key repeat with broken X.Org drivers.

  
  

• Implemented ALLEGRO_EVENT_MOUSE_ENTER_DISPLAY, ALLEGRO_EVENT_MOUSE_LEAVE_DISPLAY for X11.

Image I/O addon:

• Changed return type of al_save_bitmap() to bool.

  
  

• Separated al_add_image_handler into al_register_bitmap_loader, al_register_bitmap_saver, etc.

  
  

• Made JPEG and PNG loaders handle al_create_bitmap() failing.

  
  

• Speed up JPEG loading and saving.

  
  

• Fixed a reinitialisation issue in iio.

Audio addons:

• Moved basic sample loading/saving routines to kcm_audio from acodec and added file type registration functions.

  
  

• Moved WAV support into kcm_audio.

  
  

• Made WAV loader not choke on extra chunks in the wave.

  
  

• Separated acodec into a5_flac, a5_vorbis addons. You need to initialise them explicitly. Removed sndfile support.

  
  

• Renamed al_*_oggvorbis to al_*_ogg_vorbis.

  
  

• Changed argument order in al_save_sample and al_stream_from_file.

  
  

• Reordered parameters in al_attach_* functions to follow the word order.

  
  

• Renamed a few streaming functions to refer to fragments/buffers as fragments consistently.

  
  

• Added missing getters for ALLEGRO_SAMPLE fields.

  
  

• Fixed mutex locking problems with kcm_audio objects.

  
  

• Avoid underfilling a stream when it is fed with a short looping stream.

Other addons:

• Added glyph advance caching for the TTF addon.

  
  

• Renamed al_register_font_extension to al_register_font_loader. Match the file name extension case insensitively.

Documentation:

• Lots of documentation updates.

  
  

• Added a short "Getting started guide" to the reference manual.

Examples:

• Added another example for kcm_audio streaming: ex_synth.

Build system:

• Fix pkg-config .pc files generated for static linking.

  
  

• DLL symbols are now exported by name, not ordinals.