From:	triquet AT fil DOT univ-lille1 DOT fr (triquet frederic)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro bitmaps
Date:	1 Apr 1997 13:36:57 GMT
Organization:	Formations Informatiques Lille - F.I.L. - Bāt. M5
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References:	<01bc39ad$32477300$90081ecb AT sly>
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In article <01bc39ad$32477300$90081ecb AT sly>, "Sly" <sly AT aussie DOT net> writes:
+->Thomas Harte <T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com> wrote in article
+-><01bc36a8$c77e9aa0$522549c2 AT default>...
+->> 	How do you find out the size of an Allegro bitmap?
+->> I read the Allegro.txt, and it told me about the bitmap struct, but
+->> <bitmap>.h & <bitmap>.w don't work. What is the correct way to read the
+->> dimensions of an Allegro bitmap?
+->
+->A bitmap is declared by the following line:
+->
+->BITMAP *bitmap;
+->
+->This is a pointer to the bitmap.  To get access to the members of this
+->structure, use the -> operator, as such...
+->
+->size = bitmap->w * bitmap->h;
+->

Yes, you can also do it this way:

size = (*bitmap).w * (*bitmap).h;

I prefer using the one with " -> "  but you can find the other too.


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				Fred.
Frederic Triquet
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