bitmaps

For the 8 bit picture here is what the palette looks like:

// these are up at the top as globals
LPDIRECTDRAWPALETTE lpddpal = NULL;
PALETTEENTRY palette[256];
// this is something that is used with the load bitmap function
BITMAP_FILE bitmap;

memset(palette,0,256*sizeof(PALETTEENTRY));

// create a R,G,B,GR gradient palette
for (int index=0; index<256; index++)
{
// set flags
palette[index].peFlags = PC_NOCOLLAPSE;
} // end for index

// now create the palette object
if (lpdd->CreatePalette(DDPCAPS_8BIT | DDPCAPS_INITIALIZE | DDPCAPS_ALLOW256,
palette,&lpddpal,NULL)!=DD_OK)
return(0);

// attach the palette to the primary
if (lpddsprimary->SetPalette(lpddpal)!=DD_OK)
return(0);

// now load the 8 bit color bitmap
// Load_Bitmap_File is the bitmap loader function that came with the book
Load_Bitmap_File(&bitmap, "ANDRE8.BMP");

// now load the palette into the directdraw
lpddpal->SetEntries(0,0,256,bitmap.palette);

And for the color keying I have this:

DDCOLORKEY col_key;
col_key.dwColorSpaceLowValue = 0;
col_key.dwColorSpaceHighValue = 0;

Can you tell if it's the palette that's messed up from this code? Also the black spots on the image go to different places everytime I run the program. Thanks for any help.

Edited by - BlackHwk4 on April 11, 2001 4:07:06 PM

Maybe you haven''t created the palette correctly. Look on page 183. It looks like you''re only setting the flags, but not actually creating the colors for the palette. I dunno, since I''m not much further than you are Actually, if you wanna nit pick, I''m not as far as you are. But I think I have an idea of what I"m talking about. I think ^_^

Thanks it worked! I copied and pasted the code from .cpp file on the CD and I guess LaMothe forgot to put those in and I didn''t notice.