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>SDL_SetColors</H1
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>Name</H2
>SDL_SetColors&nbsp;--&nbsp;Sets a portion of the colormap for the given 8-bit surface.</DIV
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><PRE
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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><CODE
><CODE
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>int <B
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>SDL_SetColors</B
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>(SDL_Surface *surface, SDL_Color *colors, int firstcolor, int ncolors);</CODE
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>Description</H2
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>Sets a portion of the colormap for the given 8-bit surface.</P
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>When <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>surface</I
></TT
> is the surface associated with the current
display, the display colormap will be updated with the requested colors.  If
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SDL_HWPALETTE</TT
> was set in <A
HREF="sdlsetvideomode.html"
>SDL_SetVideoMode</A
> flags,
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SetColors</TT
> will always return <SPAN
CLASS="RETURNVALUE"
>1</SPAN
>,
and the palette is guaranteed to be set the way you desire, even if the window
colormap has to be warped or run under emulation.</P
><P
>The color components of a
<A
HREF="sdlcolor.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>SDL_Color</SPAN
></A
>
structure are 8-bits in size, giving you a total of 256<SUP
>3</SUP
>
=16777216 colors.</P
><P
>Palettized (8-bit) screen surfaces with the <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SDL_HWPALETTE</TT
>
flag have two palettes, a logical palette that is used for mapping blits
to/from the surface and a physical palette (that determines how the
hardware will map the colors to the display). <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SetColors</TT
>
modifies both palettes (if present), and is equivalent to calling
<A
HREF="sdlsetpalette.html"
>SDL_SetPalette</A
> with the
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>flags</I
></TT
> set to
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>(SDL_LOGPAL | SDL_PHYSPAL)</TT
>.</P
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>Return Value</H2
><P
>If <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>surface</I
></TT
> is not a palettized surface, this function
does nothing, returning <SPAN
CLASS="RETURNVALUE"
>0</SPAN
>.  If all of the colors were set
as passed to <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SetColors</TT
>, it will return
<SPAN
CLASS="RETURNVALUE"
>1</SPAN
>.  If not all the color entries were set exactly as
given, it will return <SPAN
CLASS="RETURNVALUE"
>0</SPAN
>, and you should look at the
surface palette to determine the actual color palette.</P
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>Example</H2
><PRE
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>/* Create a display surface with a grayscale palette */
SDL_Surface *screen;
SDL_Color colors[256];
int i;
.
.
.
/* Fill colors with color information */
for(i=0;i&#60;256;i++){
  colors[i].r=i;
  colors[i].g=i;
  colors[i].b=i;
}

/* Create display */
screen=SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 8, SDL_HWPALETTE);
if(!screen){
  printf("Couldn't set video mode: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
  exit(-1);
}

/* Set palette */
SDL_SetColors(screen, colors, 0, 256);
.
.
.
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>SDL_Color</SPAN
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>
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<A
HREF="sdlsetpalette.html"
><TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SetPalette</TT
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><TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SetVideoMode</TT
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