Allegro 4.9.17 released

Allegro 4.9.17 released

kenmasters1976

Member #8,794

July 2007

SiegeLord said:

Can someone who didn't have this bug use those last two dll's and see what happens? If it doesn't break things for those people I'll commit the changes to SVN.

Both dll's give a correct output for ex_ttf on my machine.

SiegeLord

Member #7,827

October 2006

Great, thanks. The changes are now in the SVN.

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Slartibartfast

Member #8,789

June 2007

Thomas Fjellstrom said:

Slartibartfast said:

Curiously enough, I still get crappy sound in all of the audio example except ex_stream_seek, what could be causing this?

PulseAudio being crappy.

Well, the "curiously enough" part refers to ex_stream_seek working fine. And would PulseAudio being crappy matter if I'm using alsa? (seeing as how I couldn't even get PulseAudio support compiled :S)

Edit: forgot to say good job for your work on Allegro

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Elias

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May 2000

When you use PulseAudio it takes over all sound. That is in a recent Ubuntu, even if you use Alsa, it is routed through PA. You can check it by clicking the PA volume icon. It will have a volume slider for each application currently playing sounds, including those using Alsa - for those it says something like "ALSA plug-in [application name]" instead of just "application name".

It also seems possible to fix the lag issue application-wise. For example in LMMS, I can choose alsa, pulseaudio and SDL for sound output.

If I select Alsa, LMMS simply crashes. Apparently it uses Alsa in a way which does only work with real ALSA, and not the pulseaudio ALSA emulation.

If I select pulseaudio, it works, but the sound is delayed by half to a full second. Makes it completely unusable of course.

If I select SDL, it works perfectly. No noticeable delay, and no audio noise even with the smallest possible buffer size. But it still is routed through PA - seems the SDL devs managed to make their audio API somehow trick PA into dropping it's forced half-second delay. Question is just how did they do it.

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Dario ff

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August 2008

Just wanted to say thanks to the Allegro devs, everything is worked as expected after solving the little problem with the d3d clipping. Everything's working great so far.

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Slartibartfast

Member #8,789

June 2007

Elias said:

When you use PulseAudio it takes over all sound. That is in a recent Ubuntu, even if you use Alsa, it is routed through PA.

Oh, okay. Lame.

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Considering how in my case, all sound examples fail to produce proper sound except for ex_stream_seek, maybe there is some hidden solution to that problem in the case of ex_stream_seek?

Karadoc ~~

Member #2,749

September 2002

<edit>
Never mind.. my problem was just that I didn't realise allegro 4.9 required a different directX sdk to allegro 4.4. I downloaded this and it fixed the problem. (I'm just leaving my original message in case it helps someone else)
</edit>

I just downloaded the latest version of the 4.9 branch on svn. It had compile errors, so I reverted to version 12922 (for which the comment was "bumped to 4.9.17", so I assume it's the version you're talking about here) - but that had the same errors.

Here's a copy-paste of the first few compile problems:

C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c: In function `joystick_dinput_acquire':
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c:271: warning: implicit declaration of function `IDirectInputDevice8_Acquire'
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c: In function `_al_win_joystick_dinput_unacquire':
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c:292: warning: implicit declaration of function `IDirectInputDevice8_Unacquire'
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c: In function `_al_win_joystick_dinput_grab':
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c:318: warning: implicit declaration of function `IDirectInputDevice8_SetCooperativeLevel'
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c: In function `joystick_enum_callback':
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c:582: warning: implicit declaration of function `IDirectInput8_CreateDevice'
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c:587: warning: implicit declaration of function `IDirectInputDevice8_QueryInterface'
C:\Programming\allegro5\src\win\wjoydxnu.c:587: error: `IID_IDirectInputDevice8' undeclared (first use in this function)

Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong? I'd prefer to be able to use the most up-to-date code, but maybe I should just download the non-svn version. (?)

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23yrold3yrold

Member #1,134

March 2001

Where's the API for Allegro 5, anyway? All the examples I find are out of date and I don't see any docs online except for the same API as on the site here ...

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