Allegro.pas

[Cybermonkey]

Sorry, for the typo, it must be "hear" not "here" ... typical German fault.

Just another question: is it possible to load png or jpeg images with Allegro?

[Ñuño Martínez]

Just another question: is it possible to load png or jpeg images with Allegro?

I planned to add an add-on to load that, but I didn't find way to do it.

[Cybermonkey]

Well, I got a really problematic issue here. Running any example in fullscreen on my Radeon causes the screen flickering after that. I am using a 64 bit Mageia 2 and even a restart of the X-Server does not help; only a complete reboot helps. So at the moment I will stay with SDL.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Do you have the same problem with the "original" Allegro examples? If you do then I may ask at Allegro.cc. If not, then it's my fault.

And, is it Allegro.pas 4.4.4? Allegro.pas 5 (SVN) isn't yet stable.

[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.