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From: "George Foot" <george DOT foot AT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
To: jayjohnson AT rocketmail DOT com (Jay Johnson)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 03:10:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: Allegro getpixel problem
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On  2 Apr 99 at 0:32, Jay Johnson wrote:

> BITMAP buffer;
> int temp;
> char textbuf[50];
> ...
> 
> putpixel(buffer, 0, 0, 6);

You should get compiler errors -- you just passed a BITMAP
instead of a BITMAP *.  This error is in the definition of
`buffer'; everything you do with Allegro is through pointers
to bitmaps, not bitmaps themselves.

> It seems like I should be getting a 6 out of the getpixel, 
> but I only get 0.

Can you post a complete (but short) program that other people
can try out?

-- 
George