I just ran into a very similar need and searched through this NG for a
previous discussion - strange that it turned out to be just a week ago.
Actually, I guess my needs might be a little different: the important point
for me is that color bitmaps _not_ be remapped by pilrc, even if they are
stored without color tables. I need for the color indices to be unchanged.
So I'm a little late, but here's how I dealt with it:
I added a NOREMAP pilrc option to the bitmap resource statements, and
modified pilrc so as not to do the normal system palette remapping if the
option is specified along with NOCOLORTABLE.
I then just make sure to include at least one bitmap _with_ a color table in
the resource file and use that palette as an argument to WinPalette().
Pretty simple, actually - though it doesn't explicitly define the palette
anywhere in the .RCP file.
I was going to ask Aaron about adding this option to pilrc for real. Does it
make sense to have both methods? Or does anybody really hate NOREMAP in
principal?
-jim berry
"Chris DiPierro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <59517@palm-dev-forum>:
>
> Recently I started developing an app where the 8bpp palette was just
> all wrong for the bitmaps I needed to display. After some dialogue with
> Aaron and a few others, we decided the best thing to do is to extend
> pilrc to create bitmaps with custom palettes. I've done this over the
> past few days in the following way:
>
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