From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: Size of Loaded Bitmaps in Allegro
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:01:55 +0000, Darac <You_Know_Who AT NoSpam DOT I DOT Am>
wrote:

>Hello everybody!
>
>I'm making a little program to convert JPGs into BMPs for my Windows
>Wallpaper. I've got LIBJPEG 1.03

Where did you get that? I haven't been able to find it around.

>Now, from what I can tell from the Allegro Docs, load_bitmap will
>create the in_jpeg bitmap and load the JPG into it. However, how
>can I get the width and height of that bitmap.

textprintf(screen, font, 0, 0, 15, "the bitmap is %d by %d pixels",
           in_jpeg->w, in_jpeg->h);

>Also, I'm assuming that the in_jpeg bitmap will be 24bit (or whatever)
>but do I _have_ to go into graphics mode first. I'd prefer to stay in
>Text mode all the way through and do all the graphics stuff in memory.

Then use create_bitmap_ex() to make your truecolor bitmap.

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