From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: textout() colors
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 1998 19:10:37 +0000
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Dan Chak writes:
>If I am using 32 bit color depth, but it seems like the number of colors
>available to textout() is limited.  Is this so?  

No: what makes you think this?

>How can I use *any* color with textout(), 

Just pass whatever value you want as the color parameter. This is a 32
bit integer, so it has room to encode any color depth format from 8
right up to 32 bits.

>and how can I be sure what each number will represent 

Use the makecol() function. See the ex29 example program for a practical
demonstration.

>(because I wasn't aware that some pallete had been chosen for me in the 
>first place, 

It hasn't. There is no need to worry about palettes in a truecolor mode,
except for special cases like converting images between the 256 and
truecolor formats.
 

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