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Bug 398

Summary: SDL_SetPalette() reserved for screen surfaces?
Product: SDL Reporter: Patrice Mandin <patmandin>
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.11   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Patrice Mandin 2007-02-22 16:44:22 UTC 
Hello,

When trying to add some custom file formats to SDL_Image, I came into a problem with palettized surfaces. I used SDL_SetPalette() to set the palette of the SDL_Surface to be returned to the application. However it is not working, because 'showimage' program loads the image first, then setup a video mode to display it.

This is because SDL_SetPalette() checks if a video driver is available before doing its work, and will fails with any SDL_Surface till a video driver is initialized and available.

I think it should be pretty easy to make it work without a video driver being available. The screen-only stuff is the management of SDL_PHYSPAL flag when calling the function
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2007-07-03 02:39:37 UTC 
This is fixed in revision 3125.  Thanks!