>> From: Bill Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Is there a way for users to change the depth of the display
>> or can it only be changed programmatically?
>
>Scott Johnson wrote:
>Do you mean a setting that would apply to all apps on the device, and which
>the user could change in a Prefs panel? The answer appears to be yes. Look
>in <SystemMgr.h> for sysFtrNumDisplayDepth. This is a feature that defines
>the default depth that will be used for all applications (until the next
>reset). So you could write a simple Prefs panel to let the user change it.
>(There isn't any such UI supplied with 3.5 itself.)
Yes, I was asking if there is a way for USERS to set the display depth. I saw the
functions for setting the default programmatically, but I couldn't find any preference
panel or application which allowed users to actually change this.
If there is no Palm-supplied method for changing the display depth, then I think my
second assumption should be valid (i.e., Is it reasonable to assume that the new color
devices will always be in 8-bit mode and current devices will always be in 1-bit mode
unless your application purposely sets the display to a different color depth?). Users
of non-color devices would not be able to activate display depths beyond 1-bit without
using an add-on.
This is really important since window depths are causing me a lot of problems in 3.5.
It's not so surprising if some software doesn't work on the new color devices, but it
will really be a pain if updating to 3.5 causes old programs to stop working on
current devices.
(Dear Palm gurus: I still haven't been able to find any information about specifying
the depths of windows created by WinCreateOffscreenWindow and WinCreateBitmapWindow.
This is really important if you try to do anything graphical on a color device.)
Bill Goodman
Cyclos
