Text Editor

[Piru]

programs have been forced to obtaining thousands of pens only because the Amiga gfx API is so increadably crappy when it comes to dealing with colors.

As far as I know there simply doesn't exist any function to draw a pixel/line/rectangle or text using RGB. Even using p96/cgfx there is still no RGB text function.

What do you do in such a crappy system?? :-(

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SetRPAttrs(rp, RPTAG_PenMode, FALSE, RPTAG_FgColor, 0xFFCC88, TAG_DONE);
Example code here: http://www.sintonen.fi/src/misc/truecolortest.c (while written or MorphOS this extension has been adopted by AROS)

[Piru]

@Piru
I don't need to setup some funky special custom messy bitmap myself to use this, do I?

You don't.

Of course if you wish to support planar modes you should have the code check for the bitmap depth and if <=8 use the old pen code. This assuming your app is opening on a public screen. If you use a custom truecolor screen then you don't need to worry about the pen stuff at all.