From: Matteo Sasso <icemaze AT tin DOT it>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: select_palette: why it doesn't work?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:32:42 +0100
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I'm writing a map editor which loads 8 bits bitmaps and displays them in
32 bit mode.
The problem is that even if I loaded the palette from a datafile and
selected it using the select_palette functions, bitmaps' colours aren't
right!
I used
  select_palette(*(PALETTE *)tilefile[bks].dat);
  select_palette((RGB *)tilefile[bks].dat);
  select_palette(tilefile[bks].dat);
but NONE of these worked! (is any of them correct? which is the most
"fair"?)
(tilefile is a datafile and bks is the position of the palette,
obviously!)
Here are some pieces of source (I omitted some working parts using
"[...]"):

--- SOURCE ---

[...] (definitions and procedures that WORK)

void main()
{
  allegro_init();
  set_color_depth(32);
  set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT,800,600,0,0);
[...]
  tilefile = load_datafile("BKG.DAT");
  if (tilefile == NULL)
  {
[...]
  }

[...]

  select_palette(*(PALETTE *)tilefile[bks].dat); // Selects the palette
  // I'm sure that bks is set correctly!
[...]
  for (i = 0; i < bks; i++)
    blit(tilefile[i].dat,screen,0,0,100 + (i * 40),100,32,32); //
Displays the bitmaps
  getch();
[...]
  set_gfx_mode(GFX_TEXT,80,25,0,0);
}

--- END OF SOURCE ---

Thanks a lot to whoever will help me!!

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