Changes from 4.9.22 to 5.0.0 RC1 (November 2010)
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The developers this time were: Trent Gamblin, Evert Glebbeek, Elias Pschernig,
Paul Suntsov, Peter Wang.

Graphics:

- Make al_resize_display keep the original resolution (or change back) if it
can't set the users request, on Windows.

- Do not emit ALLEGRO_DISPLAY_RESIZE events from the Windows and X11 display
drivers when using al_resize_display.

- [X11] Make al_get_num_display_modes and al_get_display_mode work if the
adapter is set to default. Right now there was no way to query the modes of
the default monitor.

- [X11] Use _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN hint for "true" fullscreen displays.
Enable mouse grabbing in fullscreen modes.

- Added ALLEGRO_EVENT_DISPLAY_ORIENTATION and implement it on iOS.

- Dennis Busch fixed a problem with displays not showing up on the
primary display by default in some dual head setups, on Windows.

- Increase the precision of texture coordinate deltas in the software triangle
renderer, from floats to doubles.

- Remove al_get_frontbuffer(). It wasn't implemented anywhere.

- Implement min/mag filter and mipmap flags for Direct3D.

Input:

- Report correct initial mouse position if a display is created with the mouse
pointer inside, or if the mouse routines are installed after a display is
created (X11, Windows).

- John Murphy fixed improperly mapped axes on the Windows joystick driver.

Events:

- Do not register user event sources with the destructor system as it cannot
work reliably. User event sources must be destroyed manually.

Filesystem:

- Make al_get_fs_entry_name and al_get_current_directory return strings
instead of ALLEGRO_PATH.

- Make al_make_directory create parent directories as needed.

- Fix al_create_fs_entry to not trim the root path "/" down to the empty
string with the stdio backend.

Path routines:

- Remove al_make_path_absolute and replace it by al_rebase_path.

- Remove undocumented behavior of setting a default organization name of
"allegro" for all apps.

- Correctly return standard paths as directories on OS X.

Threads:

- Rename al_wait_cond_timed to al_wait_cond_until to match al_wait_cond_until.

Config routines:

- Add a blank line between sections when writing out a config file.

Other core:

- Move the Windows event loops back into the same thread as the D3D event
loop. It's a requirement of D3D, else you can get crashes as I was when
resetting the device (like tabbing away from a fullscreen app).

- Add some missing standard entries to the OS X menu bar (the "hide", "hide
others" and the window list, mainly).

Audio addon:

- Automatically stop sample instances which point to a buffer of a sample
which is about to be destroyed with al_destroy_sample.

- alsa: Resume properly after suspending.

Image I/O addon:

- Make GDI+ support compile cleanly with the headers that come with MinGW
package w32api-3.15.

- Speed up PNG and BMP saving, and NSImageFromAllegroBitmap loading.

TTF addon:

- Add a flag for loading TTFs without anti-aliasing (ALLEGRO_TTF_MONOCHROME).

PhysicsFS addon:

- Make PhysFS implementation of al_get_current_directory return "/", not NULL.

Primitives addon:

- Fix several failed sub-bitmap related unit tests on Windows.

- Made thick outlined triangles look nicer when the triangles are very thin.

- Add a debug-only check for primitives addon initialization to aid in code
portability.

Examples:

- Added example demonstrating the effect of premultiplied alpha.

- Make 'F' toggle fullscreen window in SPEED (in-game).

- Minor improvements to the a5teroids demo.

Documentation:

- Many documentation updates.

- Add list of contributors and a readme for packagers.

- Make make_doc tool build cleanly on MSVC, and work around a problem with
recent version of Pandoc on Windows.

- Improve styling of PDF output.

- Add generated man pages to archives.

Bindings:

- Implemented array types in the Python wrapper.

Furinkan increased to level 5.0.0rc1!

Furinkan is trying to learn A5,
but Furinkan can only learn 4 gfx apis!

Forget an older gfx api to learn A5?
>yes no

Which one?
Alleg4 GL
>DX3D GX

Furinkan forgot DX3D and...

Furinkan learned A5!

I'd like to build the core allegro library as DLL, but all addons as static libs, in fact I'd like to include the required sources into one bigger static library.

I'm wondering... where have pack files gone? Am I supposed to use zip files instead?

What about the nice config file routines, it seems that I have to re-implement things using the new functionality?

Why are useful functions like get_extension not there any longer?

I can implement what I'm using with those functions, but I have to implement all parsing, handling of default values and more than one config file at a time all by myself, whereas allegro 4's functions did a lot of that work for me. That's why I'm asking.

I have a file name and want to get the extension, or cut the extension off to show only the file name in a list. Now, I have to create an ALLEGRO_PATH object, find the basename and destroy the object after that. To me that seems overly complicated.