From: Matthew Bloch <mattbee AT eh DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for Allegro...
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:27:57 +0100
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          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/ )