From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro bitmaps
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:55:14 +0000
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Thomas Harte writes:
>       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?

If your bitmap variable is a pointer, declared with something along the
lines of BITMAP *bmp; you need to use the pointer to member syntax of
bmp->w and bmp->h, rather than bmp.w. Get a book on C and read the
section on pointers and structures...


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