Hi!
I came to another problem.
After looking at the manual i saw that the al_show_native_message_box()
has 6 parameters. What is the first parameter shown as: ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display
What it will display exactly? The screen itself? What is drawing on the screen?

I cannot understand it. I am not a native English speaker.
Also the 5th parameter is button. How am i supposed to modify it with a | in between buttons when you have them as a string?

Where is the Yes sir! and No sir!
What is the purpose of the fifth parameter, i cannot find it.
I thought it renames the ok and cancel
And i got a very similar result:

{"name":"295r6f8.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/2\/7\/2705e6abbefbe570283fe8b47bbdddb8.png","w":1281,"h":418,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/2\/7\/2705e6abbefbe570283fe8b47bbdddb8"}
It doesnt show on mine. Very weird. Is there anything to do with visual studio 2012?
How can i add coding and image tags on here?

I think the dialogs on Windows will only use names based on the last parameter (YES_NO). Winapi is a pain and the easy messageboxes don't allow changing those, and nobody wants to code a full fledged one.

Trent meant nobody's bothered to write an entire modeless dialog box framework for the odd case where somebody wants multiple buttons with custom text. When you get up to speed in Allegro, write one yourself for fame and fortune! OTOH, you might simply add a modeless dialog yourself with an #ifdef WINDOWS #elif section.

I don't think you can change the strings for the buttons on some Windows dialogs. So its not a bug in allegro. Just a feature allegro exposes but windows doesn't.

Okay, so your book will either be for a narrow non-English speaking audience or if you do it in English it will be possibly confusing at times due to, you yourself, saying your English is poor due to it not being your native language? Also, there was a book written back around Allegro 3.1.x and the author of that himself said Allegro didn't have a large enough of a following to warrant a new book for it. He said it was a niche library that no company would or could justify publishing a book about it.

To me, Allegro is for programmers, by programmers, and programmers that can't understand the manual or what it means shows how much more the programmer needs to improve.

A5 Book. Any? NO! Reason: no one would read the stupid thing (ask Harbour, his A3 book only sold due to starry eyed programmer wannabes).
Videos? Only 2 guys? A YT search shows a few A5 tutorials especially from Coding Made Easy.
Wiki is a collection of links to articles, documents to help learn Allegro so I fail to even understand your argument on that.

Each one of those could be an article on the wiki as a wiki is, in a sense, just a large table of contents with a search feature to help find the articles(chapters) you need.

That has nothing to do with Allegro at all. The only thing Allegro would be doing in that case would be handling events, input, and displaying the doors and player. Otherwise that would be reliant on your abilities with the language you are using and math/physics skills.

Nothing you have mentioned in this thread has justified or warranted a book. Plus, as ML pointed out to Harbour when he did his A3 book, Allegro updates so rapidly that the book would be outdated by the time it was published and released.

That question just shows you aren't ready or the person needed to write a book about A5 or anything in programming.

Nope, I only use Allegro, played with SFML and SDL and have never touched DirectX with plans to look into OpenGL at a later date.

It is used for and by programmers and you are the only one whining about wanting a book for it.

What? Allegro is on 5.1.3 .

I'm going to have to call bu||sh!t on that one. He started making those back in February of this year and you waited six months to post about a book?

Millions? You'd be lucky if you get 10.

If I can? A blind man could find your errors above! You drop out words, use wrong words, put the word 'even' in the wrong spot in at least two sentences, 'i' should be 'I', I could keep going on just your post from above.

The grammar errors are in your head. If you can't understand the manual (which looks like every other manual I've ever seen for other libraries) then you definitely need to stick with web development and forget this whole book business as books take time, the faster you write it the more errors and just plain wrong it will be.

Fireballs and storms attacks? It is called trying to talk sense into a delusional person.

We told John Harbour all this when he did the book that used A3.1.x and he made it, but when it came out no one used it that much because we were onto A3.3.x or such and most of the issues he pointed out in his book was fixed or changed so it was wrong. He still says A3.0.9 is the best Allegro version and refuses to look at A5 because he is in love with Commercial as it helps line his pockets.

Books fail because of internet! It is easier to find what your problem is (ie teleporting between two doors) and google it rather than go out finding books that cover that topic. One Allegro book has already failed, all you are doing is writing a second allegro book that will fail. Good luck in that though.

Oh, and you need to look at more than the first page of a search or at least more than the first few results. This has at least 3 or 4 different guys by the end of that page that have done allegro 5 tutorials of some sort.

Yeah, I know, but if I remember right Harbour used the latest WIP at the time of writing his book. I try to always use the WIP so I can help find bugs and because of it having the latest bug fixes.

We don't restrict stable releases from getting new features, so long as it doesn't break source or binary compatibility iirc.

AleX-G Squadron:

Please post what you have. You could name it "WIP", as in the expression "Work In Progress", to inform readers that the book is not yet finished.

For example: My_Allegro_Book_WIP-version-1.doc

Or, you could post it on the Allegro WIKI and people could help you along. Your readers could benefit from the book as it is made. You said you did not like the WIKI, so please help me by improving it.

While I know Allegro4 quite well, I am learning Allegro5 at the same time you are. Thank you ahead of time for your contribution to our community.

Have you programmed anything? More than one thing? Did it/they work? If the answer to at least two of those things are "yes" then you're probably a programmer. If the answer to all three is yes, then you are most definitely a programmer.