#include <graphics.h>
struct palettetype *getdefaultpalette(void);
 

getdefaultpalette finds the palettetype structure that contains the
palette initialized by the driver during initgraph.

/* getdefaultpalette example */
 
#include <graphics.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
 
int main(void)
{
   /* request autodetection */
   int gdriver = DETECT, gmode, errorcode;
 
 
   /* pointer to palette structure */
   struct palettetype *pal = NULL;
   int i;
 
   /* initialize graphics and local variables */
   initgraph(&gdriver, &gmode, "");
 
 
   /* read result of initialization */
   errorcode = graphresult();
   if (errorcode != grOk) {  /* an error occurred */
 
printf("Graphics error: %s\n", grapherrormsg(errorcode));
printf("Press any key to halt:");
getch();
exit(1);   /* terminate with an error code */
   }
 
   /* return a pointer to the default palette */
   pal = getdefaultpalette();
   for (i=0; i<pal->size; i++) {
printf("colors[%d] = %d\n", i, pal->colors[i]);
getch();
   }
 
   /* clean up */
   getch();
   closegraph();
   return 0;
}

getpalette initgraph

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