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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: beginner allegro question
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:46:13 +0100 
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Delbeke P. writes:
>  if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_VESA2L, 640, 480, 0, 0) != 0) {
>      printf ("uh-oh");
>      exit(1);
>   }
>
>  thing = load_tga("thing.tga",pal);
>  set_palette(pal);
>  draw_sprite(screen, board, 0, 0);
>
> but that looks rather 8bbp-ish.

Add a call to set_color_depth(something greater than 8)
before you call set_gfx_mode().

> And yet another silly question  :  If I put this tga-fila in a data-file,
I
> do :
>   thing = (RLE_SPRITE *)data[THING_TGA].dat;
> ... but I don't know how to get the palette right.

Datafiles don't store the palette along with the bitmap,
so you need to add this separately. Make a palette object,
grab into it from your image file, and then select that
palette before displaying the image. The exdata.c
example program shows how to display a simple image
from inside a datafile.


	Shawn Hargreaves.