On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:43:40PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Francisco, > > Do you know what a DirectColor visual is? > > Do you know why you would need a DirectColor visual? > > Do you know of any Windows-based graphics cards that actually support > DirectColor? > > > My understanding of DirectColor is that it allows you to specify the > range of colors that will be used in a mode that is similar to > TrueColor... however, I don't know of a single Windows graphics card > that allows you to do that. I don't know of any program that utilizes > such a visual either. As such, there is no support for DirectColor in > Cygwin/XFree86. I don't expect that there will ever be DirectColor > support in Cygwin/XFree86 unless someone can explain to me that I am way > wrong. > > DirectColor seems like a lot of things in X: it was thought to be REALLY > useful when X was designed, but it turned out to be anything but useful. > I read about those things once, then I ignore them after that. > > So, anyone else know what DirectColor is?
DirectColor is a read/write colormap just like PseudoColor. TrueColor is a read only colormap just like StaticColor. Direct/True giving more colors than the other two though. Alan.
