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Re: getting the palette from a PCX file

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From: Southern
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:27
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In article <1061@cybaswan.UUCP> ccsteve@pyr.swan.ac.uk (s marshall) writes:
>I have recently been developing a graphics library for the PC, and have
>come across a problem manipulating PCX files.
>
>I can load in the image succesfully, but cannot get the palette to set
>correctly.
>
>My palette is of the form
>
>RGBrec=record
>	     red,green,blue:byte
>end;
>
.....


You nearly have it! Everything is perfect except that you didn't go through
and divide each RGB value by 4. Run through the entire 768 bytes and divide
each byte in the array and that should do it. If that doesn't do enough 
than I could mail you some code that I wrote to set the palette.

southern@Mailbox.syr.edu
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