From:	Todorovic <todorus AT eunet DOT yu>
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Subject:	Re: Size of Loaded Bitmaps in Allegro
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2000 03:22:23 +0100
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>Now, from what I can tell from the Allegro Docs, load_bitmap will create
>the in_jpeg bitmap and load the JPG into it. However, how can I get the
>width and height of that bitmap.

For BITMAP *bmp, these values are stored in bmp->w and bmp->h.

>Also, I'm assuming that the in_jpeg bitmap will be 24bit (or whatever)
>but do I _have_ to go into graphics mode first. I'd prefer to stay in
>Text mode all the way through and do all the graphics stuff in memory.

No. You do not draw anything to screen, so you can stay in text-mode.
Also, take a look at function create_bitmap_ex, it could be helpful to you.

Alexa

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