From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro questions Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 23:30:10 +0100 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <19970808174801 DOT NAA18124 AT ladder02 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 24 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk SWars Matt writes: >Is there any way I could use a separate palette for the image and the >pull-down menu? Not at the same time. The palette is a single global resource of the graphics card, so you can only use one at any given moment. You'll just have to make sure your palette contains some suitable colors for the GUI to use (you can tell it which they are by setting the globals gui_fg_color and gui_bg_color). >Also, when I have the Allegro keyboard routines installed, scanf >doesn't seem to work properly, I guess because all the keystrokes are >stored to the keyboard buffer. When Allegro installs a keyboard handler, it grabs all keyboard input for itself, so the original BIOS input routines (as used by scanf()) will never see any keypresses. Either don't use scanf(), or don't use the Allegro keyboard code: it is an all-or-nothing situation. There is no easy way around this... -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.