Features
Allegro provides the following graphic functions:
- Vector drawing:
- pixels, lines, rectangles, triangles, circles, ellipses, arcs, Bézier splines
- shape fill, with or without pattern
- polygons: flat, Gouraud, textured (3D) and translucent
- Sprites:
- masked, compressed and compiled sprites
- blitting, rotation, stretching, reduction, alpha blending, Gouraud shading
- native support for BMP, LBM, PCX and TGA files (others supported with library extensions)
- Color palettes:
- color palette manipulation (reading, writing, conversion)
- conversion of color formats RGB <-> HSV
- Text:
- support for different encodings and conversion, default is UTF-8
- bitmap fonts (masking, colouring, alignment)
- Misc:
- draw directly on the screen or on any-size memory bitmaps
- hardware scrolling and triple buffering (where available), mode-X split screen
- animation functions for FLI/FLC format
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