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4. Bernardo Lopes November 15, 2011 at 2:01 am

   I have been using Sharp Allegro since its first announcement on the Allegro.cc forums.

   I’ve tried all Allegro C# wrappers that I’ve come across and can say that Sharp Allegro is the best, and probably the only one still mantained.

   Sure there’s a lot that can be questioned about the need of such wrapper. One can say that Allegro 4.x is outdated, or that a C# wrapper is somewhat a overkill. But to me there are two main concerns that justifies the use (and development) of Sharp Allegro:

   1) I’m (and most people are) more familiar with Allegro 4.x than Allegro 5. I don’t want to learn Allegro 5 just yet, and I already know Allegro 4.x to almost its full extent.

   2) The aim of Sharp Allegro says it all: it eases the development by allowing a much more cleaner, neater language (C#) and IDE (VS 2010). To the average programmer that means a lot!

   Of course, there’s always room for improvement. I would cite the following off the top of my head:

   – Refactor the native Allegro 4.x function names to the de facto naming conventions of .NET.
   – Add the complete set of functions of Allegro 4.x, especially some missing ‘voice’ funtions.

   Anyways, Sharp Allegro seems to fill a gap that may exist in a very specific niche, and that’s why it deserves the utmost respect.

   Eugenio… keep it going bro and thanks for all the hard work!
5. Bernardo Lopes November 15, 2011 at 2:55 am

   Forgot to say: you know what would be very cool and USEFUL?

   If you could provide a Allegro load_bitmap routine that loads from a memory (stream) Windows GDI Bitmap.

   That would be very nice.

   I, for one, have zero understanding of the Windows GDI.

   Best regards.
6. Elessar February 16, 2012 at 7:14 pm

   Are you going to develop a version for Allegro 5? For those of us who have never used Allegro 4, it would be very helpful.
7. ElvenProgrammer Post authorFebruary 16, 2012 at 7:51 pm

   Actually I have already developed a quite ready version.
   If you want to try it you can find source code here: https://elvenprogrammer.svn.beanstalkapp.com/projects/trunk/sharpallegro5/
   Still I need some bits and some time to clean it up before publishing.
   Indeed if there’s interest around it I could try to speed up the process…
8. Elessar February 16, 2012 at 8:05 pm

   Great! I’ll definitely check it out.
9. Paul April 8, 2014 at 4:39 am

   Any idea why the GFX_AUTODETECT_FULLSCREEN does not work in fullscreen with any resolution? I tried the C version of the allegro and it works in fullscreen.
10. ElvenProgrammer Post authorApril 8, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    You’re absolutely right, there was an hardcoded windowed mode I left for testing purposes.
    I released a quick fix, you can find it in the downloads section.

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12. Shadowblitz16 December 9, 2020 at 12:48 am

    @ElvenProgrammer
    Is it possible to upload AllegroSharp and AllegroSharp5 to nuget where we can easily download it and use it?
13. ElvenProgrammer Post authorDecember 9, 2020 at 9:28 am

    Sure, I’ll give it a try
14. Shadowblitz16 December 9, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    Thankyou so much! please try to package the native allegro dll with the nuget package.