From: "Obsidian" <obsidian AT thevortex DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I NEED SOME ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:57:08 +0200
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Et1850 wrote in message <19990322163156 DOT 10646 DOT 00000122 AT ng-fb1 DOT aol DOT com>...
>Some Questions
>
>1. how do i get and r,g,b, into a one diget color. rgb needs three numbers
but
>   the command in allegro want one number.
>
>   RGB mycolor = {43,56,123};   *rgb colors here are ex.
>
>   set_color = (0,mycolor); *Wrong, mycolor is not const
>               (0,&mycolor)     *Wrong, mycolor is not int

You could just use

    makecol(mycolor.r,mycolor.g,mycolor.b)

or you could try and convert it yourself using bitshifts, but then you could
make a
mistake if you use another color depth.

I hope this helps.
Obsidian