Allegro.pas

[Cybermonkey]

I haven't tried the C Allegro, yet. And yes it's the stable 4.4.4.

[Ñuño Martínez]

I didn't work on the project for a time, but I decided to release Allegro.pas 5.0 Alpha 1. After installing my new computer, I was able to compile and run my entry for the 2nd PGD Challenge with few changes (may be I should release it too, as only one person was able to compile and test it, and he wasn't a judge ) and it demonstrates it is much more stable than the previous SVN versions, and also the 32/64bit support does work on Linux (almost: on Xubuntu it does work on 32bit only and I don't know why, but Fedora 64bit does).

It doesn't has full documentation, and I'm sure not all examples will work in all computers/systems, but it shoud on Windows XP 32 bit, Xubuntu 32 bit and Fedora 64 bit. I have Windows 7 64 bit too but I'm too lazy to test it now (didn't installed Free Pascal, Lazarus nor Delphi yet ).

If you want to help, you can download, test it (Delphi, MacOS, iOS if possible, both 32bit and 64bit, but any other compiler and system will help) and tell me what happens.

Download link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/all...les/5.0.alpha/

[Darkhog]

Cool! Will you also add support for PNG? I know you'd need to rebuild Allegro's DLL with PNG support and link it with libpng and zlib, but IMO it would be worth it as 32bit PNG images are significantly smaller than 32Bit TGA images.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Allegro.pas 5 alpha 1 can load PNG files out-of-the-box. Just add unit al5image to the USES clause and call "al5image.al_init_image_addon;" procedure after initialising Allegro. Of course, as you said, your Allegro intallation must include PNG support.

I should complete the documentation, then Allegro.pas 5 should became the TRUNK and Allegro.pas 4 will became "legacy".

[Darkhog]

Can you make for v5 allegro compiled with PNG and without, for convenience? Or with PNG if it isn't feasible to include both.