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Upcoming for ver 0.6:
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Changes from upcoming 0.5 have been made.
Things that I think would be quite cool are:
* Allowing a modex blit from a JLib buffer.
* A real line clipping function (working on it!)
* Some demos that illustrate good coding style (volunteers?).
* Assembly fill routines like the copy routines.
* Clipping font functions.
* Improving the portability to OS/2, Win95 (maybe).
* adding bounding rectangles through sprite editor.
So, I'm off to put some of it into action! Cheers,
Jon 28/3/95
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Upcoming for ver 0.5:
===============================================================================
In the few days since I prepared the library for release, I have had
several flashes of inspiration involving the library. In light of
these, It would almost be wise not to release it yet, but I'm going
to anyway. Here's whats coming very soon:
* All of the screen functions are going to become buffer functions, where
the screen is treated as a buffer of width 320, height 200 and the
buffer pointer is set to the start of the screen. Then all of the
screen functions are going to use the buffer functions, halving the
work that I have to do to optimise and document.
* Once that is done, the library is essentially device independant
except for blitting to the screen, which can be handled by one user
routine. This is quite exciting from a portability view, if all screen
writes are done to buffers first and then blitted.
* This change means that the buffer functions that aren't yet provided
will be provided very shortly. I won't add my circle or elipse routines
until I've done this change.
* Don't worry, the functions won't look any different.
Well, I'm off to implement this stuff! Happy Coding!
Jon 11/3/95