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Subject: Re: Changing transparent color in 256 mode?
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Why don't you change another colour to black using the palette routines? Then
colour 0 stays transparent and you can use another colour as black.
In the default VGA palette, isn't colour 16 black aswell?

~Alex

"William J. Urban II" wrote:

> Hello all,
>     Well I am working on the standard tile based learn how to use Allegro
> stuff and I was wondering if there is any way to change the transparent
> color from black to something else.  Black is pretty useful for drawing the
> "ink" lines in characters to give them more depth but then when I
> draw_sprite, it puts the background color instead.  I looked for something
> in the palette information but I couldnt find anything on it.  I also tried
> using a dark blue and it worked but gave the characters a blue tint to them.
> Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
>
> -Will