From: billlanam AT california DOT com (Bill Lanam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Palette collation utility
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:07:09 GMT
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On Sun, 09 Feb 1997 18:36:40 GMT, jwexqm AT dial DOT pipex DOT com (James Wilkinson) wrote:

>I'm using Allegro to write a graphical program which must
>simultaneously display several bitmaps. As I'm developing the graphics
>alongside the code, I find myself frequently needing to generate a new
>optimised 8-bit palette. I've been fudging my way through this with
>Paint Shop Pro and another palette synchronisation utility, although
>there is no way of locking certain colours to assigned indicies
>(transparency and the mouse cursor colours).
>
>Surely this problem is as old as the hills and there must be loads of
>programmers' utilities written specifically to get round it? I've
>searched x2ftp and shareware.com, and pulled off almost everything to
>do with 'palette', however I've found nothing suitable.
>
>Any suggestions?
>James.

Perhaps searching under color conversion from 24 bit color to 8 bit color since
that is where palette optimization is done.

    Bill Lanam