From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro - Lit sprites
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 20:38:49 +0100
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Andrew R. Gillett writes:
>I used the grabber to create the fonts. I tried changing the PCX file so 
>that the background of each char was bright pink, but the grabber 
>couldn't grab the font then.

Aha. When you load the bitmaps in as part of an Allegro font object,
they will be in an 8 bit format. Such things cannot be drawn directly
onto a 16 bit screen by anything other than a few specialised routines:
you must convert them into a 16 bit format first. This could be done on
the fly by your code, but it would probably be easier to alter the
source graphics and then import them as normal bitmap objects.


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