From:	"doug" <deleveld AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject:	Re: "load_bitmap" newbie...
Date:	25 Jun 2000 00:24:16 GMT
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23yrold3yrold <cbarry AT pangea DOT ca> schreef in artikel
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> I'm having trouble using some functions in Allegro; I think the documents
> assume a little too much (or I'm just dense). I've been trying to learn
by
> reading bloddy near every source of Allegro tutorials on the Net but I
get
> things like the following. I know it should work (according to Allegro's
> accompanying documentation) and it's copied exactly as is out of a
tutorial.

Really? *exactly*?

> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> #include "allegro.h"
> 
> BITMAP *pic;
> PALETTE pal;
> 
> int x,y;
> 
> main(void)
>  {
> allegro_init();
>  install_keyboard();
>  set_color_depth(16);
>  set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT,640,480,0,0);
>  load_bitmap(pic,pal);

What file do you want the bitmap to load from?
Off the top of my head, it should be something more like this:

pic = load_bitmap("filename.bmp",pal);

Isn't there one of the Allegro examples that does 
something like this that you could just simply 
copy the code out of?

Doug

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