From: "D. Huizenga" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Allegro WishList Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:16:08 -0500 Organization: Student Lines: 67 Message-ID: <3515C5E8.904903C1@concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts001d11.gps-mi.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Hi all, I just went to Shawn's home page, and I notice a new WIP of Allegro 3.0 is out. Good work, guys! I began thinking, why not start a "wish list", so that we have ideas of things to add. If there is already something like this, please let me know! Sorry if there are two copies of this, but Netscape stalled on my first try. [Please do not "snip" any of this out, and add on w/ numbers in the proper order. Try to maintain a relatively consistent format.] [Please be sure that, if you aren't using a text-based browser, you have it set up to wrap long lines at 80 characters.] The Allegro Wish List --------------------- [Added on 3/22/98 by Dan Huizenga] 1. A windowing system in which each window contains a "standard" allegro dialog (using pointers). (I am already working on this, but it isn't going well). 2. Serial support. 3. Integrated CD-Audio routines (Maybe merge it with BCD?). This would be _really_ cool if it was set up so that the new audio input routines could be used to record from the cd.. Or maybe just mix CD and audio at the same time (Actually, since the cd usually goes straight to the sound card, this would be automatic..) in at the same time.. Karaoke anybody? :-) 4. This is probably a bit unreasonable, and not really necessary in a "game library", but why not include printer drivers that could print bitmaps? Perhaps they could be used to print score cards.. (This is actually a pretty stupid idea, IMHO). 5. Maybe i'll do this.. I think it would be nice to have an "installer creator". It could put all of the files in a data file, and have the first element be something similar to a windows .inf installation file. Then there could be a "standard" Allegro Installer that read the file and installed the program. 6. Anyone care to write a short tutorial for newbies? (Hmmm.. Funny.. I find myself thinking that maybe I would read it through a couple of times.. Help myself to quit making these hard to track down bugs in my programs... ;-) Things to Change in New Versions -------------------------------- [Added on 3/22/98 by Dan Huizenga] 1. Fix the scroll bars on list boxes so that they look like the ones on an Atari STe. Right now they are inverted from a normal ST. [PLEASE snip all signature files, except maybe your own] -- Dan Huizenga Email: Skis AT Concentric DOT net Home: http://www.concentric.net/~skis (Not much there right now, except BGui [now there's actually an example program ;-)])