Aaron Ardiri wrote: > On 12/5/05, Luc Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>A user abroad tells me that on his OS 4.1 IIIxe, my application > displays > > >>its forms in a lighter shade of gray than others. He also > notices that > > >>with FileZ and a few apps, but says some other third party apps > like > > >>GPilotS appear as dark as the built-in ones. How can this be? > Selective > > >>screen fatigue??? > > > > > > > > > Probably due to color -> grayscale conversion. > > > The IIIxe has 4 bit 'color', i.e. 16 shades of gray. Only if > > > the form used black it would show up as dark as the built-in > > > ones. > > > All my forms are black only. The only time I use colors or > > grayscale (machine dependent and self adapting) is for > > displaying the cave map. > > The user says everything is lighter, even if he does not go to > > the map.
> but, are you running your application in 1bpp or 4bpp? > that could be the difference between your app and the built in > ones. > what you could do is download a utility like "toggle" which sets > the bit depth to non 1bpp and keeps it that way. http://www.ardiri.com/palm/toggle/ > it would probably be the only thing that can explain it :) As I wrote earlier, my user did note that once switched to 4bpp, everything suddenly displays lighter, which Ben Combee related to a quirk in the graphic controller. But my user also has the impression that his Palm now consumes more power and has become less responsive. Are these just impressions? -- Luc Le Blanc -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
