If you have been able to sucessfully manipulate the color palette in a
Delphi application I need your help.

I am trying to determine if I can pull from a greater number of colors
for my project when it is running in 256 color mode.  One thought
towards this end was to experiment with the palette.  However I have had
little success in creating, or switching palettes.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Tom Clowers
Systems Analyst
PC Programming Group

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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:20:25 -0800, Tom Clowers <t...@wolfenet.com>
wrote:

First you need to understand the general principles of palettes in
Windows. Look for the PW0777.EXE file at Microsoft's FTP or Web site,
in the SoftLib directory somewhere. It is a self-study course on
palettes.

Next, realize that every control in Delphi can have a palette, and if
it has one, then Delphi automatically selects and realizes it. The
control returns the palette handle with the GetPalette methods. You
can write a control to override this method.

A TBitmap object can have a palette, either by reading it from a file,
copying it from the clipboard, or setting its Palette property to a
palette handle. If a bitmap in a TImage control has a palette, then
Delphi automatically selects and realizes the palette.

--
Ray Lischner         (li...@tempest-sw.com)
Tempest Software, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

        Good answer. For anybody who reads "A TBitmap object can have a
palette,..by...setting its Palette property to a palette handle", tries it
and concludes it doesn't work: There's a strange quirk here:

aBitmap:=TBitmap.Create;
aBitmap.Palette:=APaletteHandle;

won't work, but

aBitmap:=TBitmap.Create;
dummy:=aBitmap.Handle;
aBitmap.Palette:=APaletteHandle;

will. (Or referencing the handle in any number of other ways will do it...)

--
David Ullrich
Don't you guys find it tedious typing the same thing
after your signature each time you post something?
I know I do, but when in Rome...

Is there any function i delphi tgat does the same thing tah the inp in C
does???????

Haven't wrttin in C since delphi came out.  But if inp is reading from
an input port try this.

 Port[$3F8]      { read an 8-bit value from the port at $3F8 }
 PortW[$61]    { read a 16-bit value from  the port at $61 }

Hope this is it.

Trey Weaver