From: "Damian Yerrick" <die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Grab your palette from your bitmap.
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:54:12 -0500
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Fire-Breathing Penguin <maxiv AT sprint DOT ca> wrote in message
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> Howdy. I got a tad bit of a problem -- whenever I load a picture and
display
> it, the colors get all mixed up. I've tried setting
> set_pallete(desktop_pallete), didn't help. The pics are basic BMP's saved
in
> 256 mode in M$'s Paint.The pictures are in a datafile. Should I create a
> custom pallete? If so, how do I do that? I've tried rgbmap, but I have a
> feeling I'm using it the wrong way... Plz help.

Try making a new palette object in the grabber. Load your bitmap
into this palette and save the datafile. When you load your picture,
    set_palette(however_you_access_your_palette);
and the picture should look right.

Damian Yerrick
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