From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro truecolour Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 23:13:17 +0000 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <01bd31b2$835b9980$6b83a6c3 AT p166-mmx> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 22 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Edd writes: >I'm having problems using truecolour through Djgpp and Allegro version >3.0. The screen doesn't look right In what way? I know it can be hard to describe things like this, but you will have to try to give me some idea what the problem might be... >and I can find no way of making Allegro draw transparent sprites. Use a bright pink color (maximum red and blue, zero green) for the masked pixels. The documentation describes this in several places: see the description of draw_sprite() or the truecolor pixel formats section. >It also crashes a lot, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Is this just your program, or do the Allegro tests and examples also sometimes crash? -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ "Pigs use it for a tambourine" - Frank Zappa