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From: "Johan Henriksson" <johan DOT he AT telia DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Newbie
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:18:15 +0100
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>I've got a problem. I have made a simple program which displays a picture.
>The problem is that it only works with 8 bit bmp's. What am I doing wrong?
nothing. The computer does what you tell it to do.

>Do I have to do something special to make it support higher modes than 8
>bit?

Yup. set_color_depth(); Valid numbers are 8, 15, 16 and 32

>
>I don't get any errors when I run the program, it just doesn't display the
>picture right.

It is because you have to set the palette in 8-bit colormode. Call
set_palette(pal); _after_ you've loaded the images.

>
>I am using the Allegro library.

There is a special mailinglist for Allegro. Check the homepage.

>
>Thanks...

no problem