extruec(3)

💖 extruec(3) — the Allegro manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so you're in the Allegro manual, section 3, and this page is literally all about extruec — Truecolor pixel format conversions ✨ It's an example program from the Allegro game programming library, and it's giving "show me every color depth you got" energy. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

Example extruec

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so picture this: this program is a live demo of how you specify colors in all the different truecolor pixel formats 🦋 The example puts the same screen up in every color depth mode your video card can handle — we're talking a few lines of text plus three coloured gradients, and yes the gradients are the moment 💅

and here's the tea: the more color depth you have, the less banding you'll see in those gradients. lowkey the gradients are the whole vibe check for your depth. ✨

ngl, more depth = smoother gradients, fewer sad little stripes. periodt. 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

everything you might wanna slide into next, fr fr:

• END_OF_MAIN(3)
• PALETTE(3)
• RGB(3)
• SCREEN_H(3)
• SCREEN_W(3)
• acquire_screen(3)
• allegro_init(3)
• clear_to_color(3)
• font(3)
• generate_332_palette(3)
• install_keyboard(3)
• key(3)
• makecol(3)
• readkey(3)
• release_screen(3)
• screen(3)
• set_color_depth(3)
• set_gfx_mode(3)
• set_palette(3)
• textout_centre_ex(3)
• textout_ex(3)
• textprintf_ex(3)
• vline(3)

mwah that's the whole page bestie 🫶 this one came from Allegro version 4.4.3 — go forth and set your color depth, you main character 💜⭐