From: Mark Phillips <umphill5 AT cs DOT umanitoba DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Dynamically creating BITMAP arrays with C and Allegro.
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> BITMAP *bitmapArray;
> bitmapArray=(BITMAP *) malloc(3*sizeof(BITMAP));
> 
> bitmapArray=load_bitmap("pe.bmp",*pal);
> 

to declare a regular bitmap you do this:

BITMAP* the_bitmap;
the_bitmap = load_bitmap("blah", pallete);

the_bitmap should already be a pointer to a bitmap (and if I remember
correctly, it's easier to not make the pallete a pointer to a pallete).

For an array of bitmaps try this:

BITMAP* the_bitmaps[NUM_BMPS];
the_bitmaps[0] = load_bitmap("blahblha",p);
the_bitmaps[1] = load_bitmap("blahblah2",p);
...

You never need to do any mallocing, load_bitmap does it for you.  Just
make sure to destroy_bitmap(the_bitmap[i]); for each bitmap that you
created before the program terminates.

Mark