SDL_Palette(3)

💖 SDL_Palette(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL API Reference — this is the SDL_Palette page and honestly it's short, sweet, and iconic. let's get into it ✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

SDL_Palette — the color palette for 8-bit pixel formats 🎨

🧚 STRUCTURE DEFINITION 🧚

here's the whole vibe, literally verbatim:

typedef struct{
  int ncolors;
  SDL_Color *colors;
} SDL_Palette;

🎀 STRUCTURE DATA 🎀

the two fields, no notes skipped:

• ncolors — the number of colors used in this palette 💅
• colors — a pointer to the SDL_Color structures that make up the palette 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, fr fr: every pixel in an 8-bit surface is an index into the colors field of the SDL_Palette structure stored in SDL_PixelFormat.

and like — you should never need to create an SDL_Palette manually. not ever. it gets created automatically when SDL allocates an SDL_PixelFormat for a surface 🫶

and if you wanna change the colors? the color values of an SDL_Surface's palette can be set with SDL_SetColors. that's the move 💖

bestie reminder: manual creation is not the assignment here. SDL handles it. you just vibe with the palette it hands you 😌

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• SDL_Color
• SDL_Surface
• SDL_SetColors
• SDL_SetPalette

k that's the whole page, you ate it 💅✨

this lil masterpiece came from the SDL crew, dated Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01, and it lives at SDL_Palette(3) — mwah, stan forever 🎀🦋💖