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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:45:05 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RLE Sprites and BITMAP
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Joe Dark wrote:
> 
> I'm a little uncertain on what I need to do to display the RLE sprites from
> a .pcx file. The function:
> 
> RLE_SPRITE get_rle_sprite(BITMAP *bitmap);
> 
> My question would actually be on the BITMAP struct. What I tried to do was
> to pass the FILE handle to the BITMAP->dat variable, thinking that that is
> supposed to be the handle to the image data. I could be doing this
> completely wrong.. well, I'm pretty certain I am because I keep getting
> that lovely error SIGSEGV..
> 
> I guess I'm just hoping for some clarification on what needs to go into the
> BITMAP struct for passing it to this function. As I said earlier I'm trying
> to display .pcx files which are RLE encoded bitmaps.

You can use `load_bitmap' to load a PCX file from disk and put it in a
BITMAP.
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Nate Eldredge
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