Re: [AD] Allegro5 and colors

[Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Laurence Withers wrote:

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> On Sunday 08 September 2002 18:54, Bob wrote:
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> > However, if we want to support depths larger than 32 bpp, we can't
> > pass that value as a 32-bit int (obviously).
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> typedef char al_color[8];
> al_color al_makecol(BITMAP*, int, int, int); // rgb, obviously :-)
> al_color al_makecol_yuv(BITMAP*, int, int, int);
> al_color al_makecol_cmyk(BITMAP*, int, int, int, int);

How safe is returning an array from a function? How fast is it? Does 
speed matter in our case?


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> > An other alternative is to have the current color as a state, much
> > like OpenGL:
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> Please don't do this :-)

Of course. I was just presenting some alternatives. I don't like the 
state based system (unless everything is state-based). However, I don't 
see a nice way out, which is why I'm posting here.