From: "Fire-Breathing Penguin" <maxiv AT sprint DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Grab your palette from your bitmap.
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:04:33 -0700
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Damian Yerrick wrote in message <7qnkdh$dkp$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu>...
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|Fire-Breathing Penguin <maxiv AT sprint DOT ca> wrote in message
|news:K_Cz3.2718$qY3 DOT 92495 AT newscontent-01 DOT sprint DOT ca...
|> 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
|http://come.to/yerrick
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|

Thank you!!