get_palette(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 get_palette(3) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're doing the Allegro manual today — this one's get_palette(3) and it's literally the moment your game's whole colour situation gets its vibe check ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

get_palette — grabs the entire palette of 256 colors for you. It lives in the Allegro game programming library 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

void get_palette(PALETTE p);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — get_palette retrieves the entire palette of 256 colors. all of them. the whole squad. no color left behind 💅

and the way you use it? you gotta hand it an array of 256 RGB structures to store everything in — that's the lil container it dumps all your colors into, and it's on you to provide it, okay? it's giving "bring your own bucket" 🙈

example time, because we love a visual:

PALETTE pal;
...
get_palette(pal);

see how easy? you declare a PALETTE called pal, do whatever mysterious ... business you got going on, and then get_palette(pal) fills her up. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

iykyk — go read those next, they're all part of the same palette-obsessed friend group 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Allegro version 4.4.3 — mwah, sending you and your 256 colors so much love, now go make something gorgeous 🫶💖✨🌸

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