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?


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Luc Le Blanc
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