From: "Oleg Shamshura" <oleg AT channel12 DOT ru>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Troubles with Allegro 2.2
Date: 27 Mar 1997 06:06:41 GMT
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Hello!
Allegro 2.2 is great, but I have two misfeatures with it:
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The DAT-file grows when I change type of sprites from BITMAP to RLE-sprite.
It looks strange, because I create these to be easy RLE-compressed.
As I notice, good results are only for transparent areas, but what about
large monochrome regions? Or am I wrong?
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play_fli() desn't update entire frame area for FLC files, so garbage
of the previous frame is visible at the bottom.
Also, it refuses to deal with one-frame flics (shows nothing, returns
FLI_ERROR).
(All the flics I tried are played well with various DOS/Windows viewers.)
Is there any workaround?
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Thank you!
Oleg