Okay, common question, but I can not for the life of me connect these dots. I'm in 8-bit color depth and I've got a palette of 256 colors. I thought I could use makecol8 to produce one of the palette colors, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. Here, take a look at the following code:

for(int h = 0; h < 256 ; h++)
{
  
      rectfill(buffer, buffer->w/2, h*2, buffer->w, h*2+2, palette_color[h]);
  get_color(h,test);
      rectfill(buffer, 0, h*2, buffer->w/2, h*2+2, makecol8(test->r,test->g,test->b));
    
}

That bit of code produces:
{"name":"591294","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/0\/b\/0bb82e44a178f8d74de189e7e1ac2761.jpg","w":643,"h":481,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/0\/b\/0bb82e44a178f8d74de189e7e1ac2761"}

The colors on the right are the correct colors from the palette. And lastly, what I ultimately want to do is to be able to pull a pixel from the bitmap and say it is # of the palette. I'm missing something, because all my logic/study has just led me in the circles, after reading (misinterpreting?) the manual for quite some time.

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No progress, other than I found out I could just use h instead of palette_color[h]. It seems the problem with makecol8 is it doesn't use the vga (0-63) colors like I thought it did. I guess in the end, you have to convert them? I'm confused.

That's what getpixel does. Am I missing something?

As per the manual, makecol8 takes RGB values in the range 0-255.

My bad, must've been a long day. The problem was I believed there was some connection between palettes and using makecol.

I've been in 32 bit for so long I was used to getpixel pulling a number that was more abstract (don't take me literally here), for lack of better terms. However, logically it makes since considering I'm in 8bit mode now. I was taking it a step at a time, and since I couldn't get makecol to work, I didn't think getpixel would work. So I spent all my time trying to figure out what the difference was there.

Not so plainly though, nor directly under makecol8. In fact, you have to go to makecol32:

And even "these functions" is a little...vague.

And maybe I missed it somewhere, but the manual doesn't ever seem to say, "this is how you use those colors you set up in your palette."

Well, what it does is give you the colour value. In high/true colour mode, this is an RGB value. In 8 bit mode, the colour is the index in the palette (that's alwo why palette_color[n]=n in 8 bit mode; it's the converted RGB value in high/true colour mode).

No I don't:

Or, http://alleg.sourceforge.net/stabledocs/en/alleg012.html#makecol8

There's nothing to say. It's no different from how you would use a colour in any other colour depth. Maybe I don't understand what you don't understand though...

Well, um, you do if you use the manual on a.cc, which is what I've been using.

Oh, I'm sure you don't understand most of what I don't understand, which is quite understandable.

Anywho, who it all makes sense now and very logically, computer-wise that is. I look back now and I don't even really remember what I was having a problem with.

Ah, right! I forgot that the A.cc copy of the manual doesn't deal well with multiple functions grouped together in one heading.
It isn't the manual though.