Allegro
Allegro-4.4.2 on extras-devel for N900.
Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. They handle common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform. However, Allegro is not a game engine: you are free to design and structure your program as you like.
TMO Discuss: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1050896
Discuss on Upstream http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/607818
[edit] Issues
- In fullscreen Allegro grabs the keyboard
'Grabs' = system wide shortcuts e.g. ctrl+backspace nor screenshots with ctrl+shift+p are not working. And you can't even answer phone calls! These are working in windowed mode.
- Sounds use too much processing power
Rename/remove file /usr/lib/allegro/4.4.2/alleg-alsadigi.so to disable sounds.
- Fullscreen is not fullscreen. Window manager's top-panel is still visible, but not focusable. Check image:
- Can't start from menu icon if there are any other application running, because started application stay bottom than 'dashboard' -> nobody has focus. Check image: Vgolf (uses Allegro) is started from menu icon, but there were one running application (X Terminal) and then no application have focus!
There are couple of ways to survive this:
*ssh server already running on phone *Open camera shutter and Allegro-app will get focus (if you close shutter, focus is lost again)
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