From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help with hicolor mode Date: 8 May 2000 13:09:05 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <8f6e9h$dbh$1@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE> References: <3917CDC5 DOT 8B6227C1 AT free DOT fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Trace: nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 957791345 13681 137.226.32.75 (8 May 2000 13:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2000 13:09:05 GMT Originator: broeker@ To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Kirill Pankratiev wrote: > Hello all! > I have a problem and apparently very few people really know how to solve > it... I would like to a 16 bit (or 24 or even 32 because since you > know how the first works the others become trivial) color mode to > display simultaneously 2 bitmap with different palettes 16bit modes don't *have* a palette, to begin with, so the whole problem doesn't really exist. Allegro (and maybe other libraries) may obscure that fact by offering a 'seemingly paletted' mode for 16bit images, but a the heart of it, there is none. As long as you stick with originally 8bit paletted input images (your usual GIF, e.g.), there's one drawback to keep in mind, though: while you can only use 256 different colors in one such images, those are choosable from an 18bit (256K colors) color space, or even full 24 bit ones. So a GIF is not displayable perfectly in a 16bit mode, to start with. But mixing two GIFs on the same screen does not pose any additional problem, either. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.