This problem occured if you have a blank line at the end
of your palette file. Just remove it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: PilRC palette/bitmap troubles


> I am trying to get 8bpp bitmaps with a custom palette to work in my
> application. I have searched archives and found what I thought were the
> answers, but still no success.
>
> I am using Macintosh CodeWarrior 8.3 with the Mac PilRC plugin version
> 2.9p10b.
>
> I have created a .pal file that looks like this:
>
> 255 255 255
> 247 255 255
> 239 255 255
> ...
> 6 14 31
> 9 10 12
> 0 0 0
>
> with 256 entries, with a space at the end of each line.
>
> My .rcp file looks like this:
>
> PALETTE ID 1000 "W.pal"
>
> BITMAPFAMILYEX ID 1100
> BEGIN
> BITMAP "frame_00_L01.BMP" BPP 1 DENSITY 1
> BITMAP "frame_00_L04.BMP" BPP 4 COMPRESS DENSITY 1
> BITMAP "frame_00_L08.BMP" BPP 8 BITMAPPALETTE "W.pal" DENSITY 1
> BITMAP "frame_00_H08.BMP" BPP 8 BITMAPPALETTE "W.pal" DENSITY 2
> END
>
> I wind up with the two (low density and high density) 8bpp bitmaps solid
> black. I have tried with and without the COMPRESS keyword for those
> lines. Theose bitmaps appear solid black both when I use them in my
> app, and if I open the .prc with Constructor.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
>
> Ted
>
>
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