Re: [cc65] TGI palettes (was: TGI colors revisited)

From: Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc1web.de>
Date: 2011-05-11 18:29:50
Hi Daniel,

> Problem is that there is no simple way to go from R,G,B to
> a palette color in many drivers (ie, c64 and atari), so you
> put a lot of code in the driver and slow down the application.

Full ACK.

> Using the TGI_COLOR_* macros you can map the value
> of the macro directly to the palette color, using char, int or
> long depending on the platform.
>
> In Atari, you could define TGI_COLOR_BLUE to 148,
> TGI_COLOR to 34, etc.

I've been thinking about this approach too. It has the downside that
you can't use TGI_COLOR_... macros anymore as palette indexes (see my
OP). But maybe the benefits outweight this downside. I'm personally
open to that direction...

Regards,
Oliver
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