select_palette(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 select_palette — the Allegro manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about select_palette(3) from the Allegro manual / Allegro game programming library, and honestly? she's a little chaotic but we love her. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

select_palette — sets the internal palette for color conversion. 💅 (yes, that's the whole vibe. Allegro game programming library, as always.)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

void select_palette(const PALETTE p);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: this one is, and I quote the source energy here, an ugly hack — for use in various dodgy situations where you need to convert between paletted and truecolor image formats. 😭 no cap, she's built for the messy moments.

What she does: she sets the internal palette table in the same way as the set_palette() function, so your conversion will use the specified palette... but — and this is the iconic part — without affecting the display hardware in any way. 👑

The previous palette settings get stored in an internal buffer, and you can restore them by calling unselect_palette(). 🫶

⚠️ but listen. if you call select_palette() again, the internal buffer will be overwritten. so don't be out here stacking calls and then wondering where your old palette went. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 go forth and convert those palettes responsibly, mwah 😘

this has been Allegro, version 4.4.3 — stan her, she's been holding it down forever. bye babes! 🎀✨🦋💅

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