Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/21/10:47:47
In message <3446EA17 DOT 8EA AT vxl DOT imag DOT net>
Darren Grant <darn AT vxl DOT imag DOT net> wrote:
> > Yeah, but the data means totally different things, and is held in
> > different formats once it is in memory (look in allegro.h, and you wlil
> > see that things like the BITMAP structure aren't just a binary block of
> > memory). Plus sometimes there are things that need to be converted
>
> I think Matthew was concerned about the extensibility of the datafile
> routines. Specifically, the ability to add datafile support for custom
> datatypes without having to hack the existing Allegro code.
No, not really, I just hadn't looked over the library very much :-) Too much
time spent trying to write my lovely backdrop plotters for Popcorn. That's
my games library, by the way, but no use at all unless you're running RISC
OS.
--
Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )
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