COLOR_MAP(3alleg4)

💖 COLOR_MAP(3alleg4) — the Allegro manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the COLOR_MAP page of the Allegro manual 🎀 this is a lil struct that stores a color map so your drawing goes zoom zoom. Allegro game programming library, yeah? iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

typedef struct COLOR_MAP

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. it's a typedef, she's a struct, she's lowkey famous 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

and inside her? one (1) single field, no cap:

unsigned char data[PAL_SIZE][PAL_SIZE];

that's the whole body. a big ol' 2D grid of bytes, PAL_SIZE by PAL_SIZE, and she's holding all the color-map tea 💅

now if you wanna actually know how to get one of these or how to use it, go read the chapter "Transparency and patterned drawing", section "256-color transparency". that's where the lore lives, fr fr 📖✨

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the besties, the girlies, the whole friend group:

• color_map(3alleg4)
• ex3d(3alleg4)
• excolmap(3alleg4)
• exlights(3alleg4)
• exshade(3alleg4)
• extrans(3alleg4)

go read all of them, they ate 🔥

ngl there are no options, no exit statuses, no signals, no environment variables on this page — it's literally just a struct and a pointer to a chapter. sometimes the main character is small 💀 but she's still the main character 👑

and that's the page!! version 4.4.3 of Allegro, and this lil manpage goes by COLOR_MAP(3alleg4) — mwah, stan, periodt 💖✨🎀🦋