Hi Day,
Hi John,
About "16 Bit Graphic Editors" of January 30:
MS> ...i read that `Windows' reserved some twenty colours of its own and
MS> that combined to the `NetScape' story explains why i didn't get more
MS> than six solid shades of grey in `PaintBrush', i guess.
BJ> ...you could define a nice palette of 236 grey levels, and save that
BJ> in a file, but when that's viewed by an application which won't or
BJ> can't change its palette (browsers are one), the application will
BJ> remap the colours to the nearest colour in the palette.
I tried my best but that's killing me. Is there a way to capture a
browser palette so i can begin this drawing from whatever it likes most?
I don't need that many levels nor that many colors, just greys, blue and
red! Euh... Or is it that the overall page must be taken into account?
BJ> ...if you have a 256-colour mode set up, and have something using
BJ> one palette in one window (say, Netscape browsing some colourful
BJ> site) then fire up something that wants another palette... ...the
BJ> colours Netscape will be using will change, so the image will look
BJ> wrong. Once you switch back to Netscape, the system puts Netscape's
BJ> palette back into effect.
I do limit `WfWG v3.11' to use only 256 colours even if there could
be more and yes, i did witness what you just described, it would seem!!!
BJ> If you want something that should look right when viewed on any
BJ> platform with 256 or more colours, stick to those 6 values...
Ben, i tried to change the `PaintBrush' palette accordingly and the
result is a mix of white and grey pixels. The solid colours are 0, 128,
192 and 255, with another one which is defined as 160-160-164 (RGB). :(
AJ> The numbers are 0, 33, 66, 99, CC and FF...
MS> ...have seen more than six solid shades of grey in `GrafX v2.00'...
TT> ...try a 16-bit hex value made up of ONLY those digits.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh! I didn't notice the two-bytes word at 1st... 8-o Will try...
:^)
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