Hi Alan,
Welcome to Java and Linux =)
I'm not sure what your question was, but I can clear up a couple things:
Although your display can show several million colors, it is limited to
displaying only a certain number of colors at the same time, usually 256
if you have an 8-bit color depth.
The colormap is then the list of 256 colors that are being displayed at
the same time.
Typically an application just adds its own colors to new colormap entries
or picks colors already in the colormap which are close enough to use.
But both the JDK and Netscape like to configure the entire colormap.
Unfortunately, however, they have different ideas about what colors they
want.
So you will just have to put up with the messages from the JDK, they're
really fairly harmless. It's just warning you that it's not able to get
certain colors that it wants, which is not a big deal.
To get around the messages, you could do various things, none of which are
really all that great. It's probably possible to synchronize both the
JDK's and Netscape's colormap, but I'm not aware of anyone doing that.
The -install flag to Netscape will tell Netscape to create a private
colormap, and as you may notice, that means everytime you go into a
Netscape window the display switches colormaps to Netscape's. Which means
that the rest of the screen becomes oddly colored.
Hope this clarifies things a bit. If anyone else has good solutions,
speak up =)
. . . Sean.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
