What colors are going ot be supported?
jason
Bill Goodman wrote:
> >> 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
