What is RGBQUAD bmiColors[1] parameter in BITMAPINFO structure

[Graham Pratt]

The BITMAPINFO structure is prototyped as follows:

typedef struct tagBITMAPINFO { // bmi
BITMAPINFOHEADER bmiHeader;
RGBQUAD bmiColors[1];
} BITMAPINFO;

When I try to initialize the bmiColors[1] parameter like so:

BITMAPINFO blah;

blah.bmiColors = pRGB; //pRGB is a pointer to a 256-element
//array of RGBQUADs

I get the following error:

"cannot convert from 'struct tagRGBQUAD *' to 'struct tagRGBQUAD [1]'"

I must be missing something really basic here. What's an RGBQUAD[1]?

What should I be feeding the bmiColors as an argument?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

Graham Pratt
(jpr...@po-box.mcgill.ca)

[ivan...@my-deja.com]

as follows

BITMAPINFO *bm;
bm = new char[ sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER) + sizeof(RGBQUAD) *
cant_colors ];
RGBQUAD * ptr = bm->bmiColors[0];

ptr points to the first color in the palette entry
++ptr to the second

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