#include <graphics.h> void setallpalette(struct palettetype *palette);
You can partially (or completely) change the colors in the EGA/VGA palette with setallpalette.
The MAXCOLORS constant and the palettetype structure used by setallpalette are defined in graphics.h as follows:
#define MAXCOLORS 15 struct palettetype { unsigned char size; signed char colors[MAXCOLORS + 1]; };size gives the number of colors in the palette for the current graphics driver in the current mode.
colors is an array of size bytes containing the actual raw color numbers for each entry in the palette. If an element of colors is -1, the palette color for that entry is not changed.
The elements in the colors array used by setallpalette can be represented by symbolic constants which are defined in graphics.h. See Actual Color Table given here:
Name | Value |
BLACK | 0 |
BLUE | 1 |
GREEN | 2 |
CYAN | 3 |
RED | 4 |
MAGENTA | 5 |
BROWN | 6 |
LIGHTGRAY | 7 |
DARKGRAY | 8 |
LIGHTBLUE | 9 |
LIGHTGREEN | 10 |
LIGHTCYAN | 11 |
LIGHTRED | 12 |
LIGHTMAGENTA | 13 |
YELLOW | 14 |
WHITE | 15 |
EGA_BROWN | 20 |
EGA_DARKGRAY | 56 |
EGA_LIGHTBLUE | 57 |
EGA_LIGHTGREEN | 58 |
EGA_LIGHTCYAN | 59 |
EGA_LIGHTRED | 60 |
EGA_LIGHTMAGENTA | 61 |
EGA_YELLOW | 62 |
EGA_WHITE | 63 |
Note: Valid colors depend on the current graphics driver and current graphics mode.
setallpalette cannot be used with the IBM-8514 driver.
In the windows version, changing the palette effects only future drawing. Currently drawn pixels do not change their color when the palette changes (no "palette animation").
/* setallpalette example */ #include <graphics.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> int main(void) { /* request autodetection */ int gdriver = DETECT, gmode, errorcode; struct palettetype pal; int color, maxcolor, ht; int y = 10; char msg[80]; /* initialize graphics and local variables */ initgraph(&gdriver, &gmode, ""); /* read result of initialization */ errorcode = graphresult(); if (errorcode != grOk) /* an error occurred */ { printf("Graphics error: %s\n", grapherrormsg(errorcode)); printf("Press any key to halt:"); getch(); exit(1); /* terminate with an error code */ } maxcolor = getmaxcolor(); ht = 2 * textheight("W"); /* grab a copy of the palette */ getpalette(&pal); /* display the default palette colors */ for (color=1; color<=maxcolor; color++) { setcolor(color); sprintf(msg, "Color: %d", color); outtextxy(1, y, msg); y += ht; } /* wait for a key */ getch(); /* black out the colors one by one */ for (color=1; color<=maxcolor; color++) { setpalette(color, BLACK); getch(); } /* restore the palette colors */ setallpalette(&pal); /* clean up */ getch(); closegraph(); return 0; }