From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: textout() colors Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 19:10:37 +0000 Organization: None Message-ID: References: <3517156C DOT 3FBA6B83 AT geocities DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 28 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Dan Chak writes: >If I am using 32 bit color depth, but it seems like the number of colors >available to textout() is limited. Is this so? No: what makes you think this? >How can I use *any* color with textout(), Just pass whatever value you want as the color parameter. This is a 32 bit integer, so it has room to encode any color depth format from 8 right up to 32 bits. >and how can I be sure what each number will represent Use the makecol() function. See the ex29 example program for a practical demonstration. >(because I wasn't aware that some pallete had been chosen for me in the >first place, It hasn't. There is no need to worry about palettes in a truecolor mode, except for special cases like converting images between the 256 and truecolor formats. -- 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