Yes, you can.
In case of Palm IIIc, it has 8-bit color mode as a default.
But in case of all other models except IIIc, you have to set the screen mode
for yourself.
Why?
- Most applications uses only bi-level(black and white), which helps save
resources such as memory. If you use 2-bit instead of 1-bit, it doubles the
size of data.
- As far as my tests go, the Palm LCDs are not good enough to display
4-level, and 16-level grayscales. I believe the next step after bi-level
mode should be 256-color mode, or true-color mode. 4-level, and 16-level
grayscales can't be generally used for applications.
- Palm recommends to design UIs only with bi-level, and to use grayscale
modes only for special purpose. It doesn't have a design guide for UI in 4-,
16-level mode.
Kijang Jung
SolidStreaming Inc.
"Shay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:24794@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Hi,
> If i have an application that needs to display images in 1,2,4 bits of
> color, Can i use ScrDisplayMode (or WinScreenMode) to set the screen depth
> color to the maximum depth that the device support, and then draw my
images
> ?
> i mean - to set the display depth to 4 bits (or 8) and then draw images
> with 1,2 bit color on the display.
> i tried it myself, by setting the screen depth to 8, and draw image with 4
> bit color, it's was fine.
> so why in the initialize of ANY Palm application there is no such thing -
> why do i need to set it myself ?
>
> Shay
>
>
>
>
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