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Subject: Re: Allegro Bitmap Question 2
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 01:57:50 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:58:12 +0100, "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net> wrote:

>> Argh!  Ok, so I've learned that an 8 pixel by 8 pixel bitmap takes up
>> 64 bytes in memory...great.  Yet for some reason, even if I feed two
>> identical tiles into memcmp, it claims that they are different.  Could
>> someone please look at the following code and tell me what I'm doing
>> wrong?  This is a program for ripping unique 8 by 8 tiles from a pcx
>> file.
>
>A BITMAP is a structure containing the various elements of the bitmap (including
>width, height, clipping details etc). You need to access the data part of the
>structure directly, not the structure itself. The actual picture data is not stored
>inside the BITMAP structure itself, just pointers to that data. I think this is
>detailed in the Allegro manual?
>
>If you have a BITMAP called fresh_tile, fresh_tile->line[0] will return the address
>of the start of raw bitmap data in memory (if I remember correctly).
>

That was the problem.  Thank you very much for your help.