bestfit_color(3alleg4)

💖 bestfit_color — Allegro manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so you're in the bestfit_color part of the Allegro game programming library manual and honestly? this one is a little sleeper hit. it finds a palette color that fits the RGB values you're asking for. that's it, that's the function, and she eats every time. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

int bestfit_color(const PALETTE pal, int r, int g, int b);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what she does is: she searches the palette you hand her and finds the closest match to the color you requested. and the color you requested? it's in the VGA hardware 0-63 format, not your regular 0-255 situation. so keep that in mind, bestie, the vibes are scaled down. 💅

now, normally — and i mean normally — you should be calling makecol8() instead. like that's the move, that's the main character. but this one is a lower level function and she has her niche, ok?? she's useful if:

• you need to use a palette that is not the currently selected one, or
• you specifically do not want to use the rgb_map lookup table.

so like, she's the specialist. the girl you call when the regular girl can't come. no cap. 🔥

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

she returns the index of the palette for the closest match to the requested color. so you get a number, and that number is your answer, and you go put it in whatever you were putting it in. slay. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• makecol8(3alleg4)

fr fr, if you don't need the special palette or the no-rgb_map thing, just go use makecol8(). she's right there. she's waiting. 🫶

Allegro version 4.4.3 bestfit_color(3alleg4) — and that's the whole page babes, written by the Allegro girlies, dated whenever this version dropped, mwah 💋✨🎀