Create LCDBitmapTable without loading file

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Programmatically creating a BitmapTable does not seems to be really doable, even in Lua (see Crash when generating imagetable - #3 by Nic for example).

Something you can do is wrapping an image table in your own type and handle 2 cases: one when the source is an image table and the other one when the source is an array of bitmaps.

For example:

typedef struct {
  LCDBitmapTable *bitmapTable;
  LCDBitmap *images;
  unsigned int count;
} ImageTableWrapper;

ImageTableWrapper *ImageTableWrapperMakeWithBitmapTable(LCDBitmapTable *bitmapTable);
ImageTableWrapper *ImageTableWrapperMakeWithCount(unsigned int count);

LCDBitmap *ImageTableWrapperGetBitmapAtIndex(ImageTableWrapper *self, unsigned int index) {
  if (self->bitmapTable) {
    return playdate->graphics->getTableBitmap(self->bitmapTable, index);
  } else if (index < self->count) {
    return self->images[index];
  } else {
    playdate->system->error("Trying to get bitmap at index %d, but count is %d", index, self->count);
  }
}
LCDBitmap *ImageTableWrapperSetBitmapAtIndex(ImageTableWrapper *self, unsigned int index, LCDBitmap *image) {
  if (self->bitmapTable) {
    playdate->system->error("This ImageTable has been loaded from disk and cannot be modified");
    return;
  }
  if (index >= self->count) {
    playdate->system->error("Trying to set bitmap at index %d, but count is: %d", index, self->count);
  }
  self->images[index] = image;
}
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