get_palette(3alleg4)

💖 get_palette 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual — this one's get_palette(3alleg4) and it's genuinely one of the simplest little icons in the whole Allegro game programming library. no drama, no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

get_palette — she retrieves the entire palette of 256 colors. that's it. that's the whole job. and she's from the Allegro game programming library, obvi 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

void get_palette(PALETTE p);

like… look at her. one function, one argument. main character energy with zero baggage 🦋

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so here's the tea: get_palette retrieves the entire palette of 256 colors. all 256 of them. the whole squad. nobody gets left behind 💜

and the way you use it? you gotta hand her an array of 256 RGB structures so she has somewhere cute to store it all. she's not gonna invent space for you, bestie, you gotta bring the container. that's the vibe check right there.

here's the example, literally verbatim, not me editing a single character:

PALETTE pal;
...
get_palette(pal);

see? you declare your PALETTE pal;, do whatever the ... is (mysterious, iconic, we don't ask), and then get_palette(pal); and boom — all 256 colors are yours. obsessed 😭✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

if you liked this one, you're gonna eat these up too:

• get_palette_range(3alleg4) — when you only want part of the palette, not the whole thing 🍓
• get_color(3alleg4) — for grabbing just one lil guy 🌈
• set_palette(3alleg4) — the other direction, the putting-it-back energy ⭐

fr fr, this is a void function — she doesn't return anything, she just fills your array and dips. provide the 256-entry array, get the 256 colors. periodt 💅

and that's the page!! this was get_palette(3alleg4) from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3 — same version, same page, just way more fun now 🧚💖 mwah, go write something cute with your 256 colors bestie 🎀✨