OpenEuphoria

Allegro for Euphoria

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU> Oct 31, 2000
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Hi There,

Just a quick note to tell everyone what I'm up to, and more importantly
if anyone is interested!!!

A have started creating a wrapper for the game programming library called
Allegro (http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/).
It has too many features to list ... Sound, Input, Graphics etc etc ...
everything required to make games.
It is a cross platform library for DOS, Windows and Linux (maybe others I'm
not really sure.)
I am only concerned with the windows version for now which uses DirectX.
At this stage the cross platform library is still in beta but is close to
being released as version 4.0

I really only got going last night and have only wrapped about a dozen
functions so far but have a couple of the demo programs working.

Actually the Euphoria wrapper calls a C DLL program I am writing that
is a wrapper for the Allegro DLL.
I beleive this is the same technique that Swig uses and which David Cuny
was attempting to do automatically with wxWindows.

At this point it seems to be looking good, and I'm hoping within the next
few weeks I'll have some kind of demo available.

Just a quick summary:

1.  Has anyone used Allegro before or would be interested in using a
Euphoria version??

2.  If anyone wants to create a C dll that is a wrapper for another DLL
library ... I might be able to help.

Regards,

Ray Smith