From: "Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Dynamically creating BITMAP arrays with C and Allegro.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:28:07 +0100
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Dave Peterson wrote in message <37737B76 DOT E907AD88 AT yahoo DOT com>...
>I am attempting to dynamically create an array of BITMAPs that can have
>its size set during execution of the program and I am confused on how
>exactly this should be done.
>
>I initialize it like this:
>BITMAP *bitmapArray;
>bitmapArray=(BITMAP *) malloc(3*sizeof(BITMAP));
>
>This step seems to work fine.
>
>I load in the data to the array like this:
>bitmapArray=load_bitmap("pe.bmp",*pal);

Although I don't use Allegro you seem to be missing the index to the
structure

bitmapArray[0]=load_bitmap("pe.bmp",*pal);
bitmapArray[1]=load_bitmap("pe2.bmp",*pal);
bitmapArray[2]=load_bitmap("pe3.bmp",*pal);