From: Todorovic <todorus AT eunet DOT yu>
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Subject: Re: Changing transparent color in 256 mode?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 01:50:25 +0100
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"William J. Urban II" <wjurban AT tca DOT net> 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.

Change constant MASK_COLOR_xx in allegro.h, recompile Allegro, and you'll
have it.

Alexa