From: "Damian Yerrick" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Allegro vs. GRX Lines: 38 Organization: Pin Eight Software X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: X-Trace: /b4C/DY59I3FENVk+dSIYlw3cZEr/9ydq6pgY91eP/KDaKHKxnzw5gWS2SOtz/ScgQi4Gh+DvrW3!QKxWMweDdSX3WI/xmPdPirxnN/6tTl4wtHrBuFkRAbYiOU9ghMzdO+c4PbUd8B/SY7g= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 17:39:39 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 17:39:39 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On the Allegro mailing list I got this well-written comparison by Michael Bukin: 66 GRX is a multiplatform graphics library. Also it has support for mouse and keyboard input. It supports drawing in different modes (copy, or, and, xor), drawing dashed lines, pattern filled primitives and drawing in user coordinates. GRX supports loadable bit-mapped fonts and can output them in different directions and with different magnification (independent for width and height). Allegro is also multiplatform, has graphics, mouse and keyboard input, plus it has sound support, packfiles and fixed point math. Allegro can draw in different modes too, with custom blenders it can draw in any imaginable mode. It has no support for dashed lines (can be partially implemented with doline) and has no drawing in user coordinates. Allegro can draw fonts only in one direction, but it has hooks for rendering fonts, they can be used for drawing antialiased and magnified fonts. WIP version of Allegro was designed to be portable to different platforms. 99 -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ View full .sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html and now you must pay...