begin nbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:24:31PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > i've seen this happen before -- but i'm still not sure why it happens. > > can you explain just a little bit more why this happens? > > You've only got 256 colors on the 8-bit display. > If program A wants 50 of them to be shades of green, > and program B wants to have 256 shades of grey, that's > more than 256 colors. :) i think this is the source of my confusion about global versus local colormaps.
program A has a colormap of 256 colors. program B also has its own colormap of 256 colors. when a program uses its own colormap, it sounds like you're saying that colormap replaces the global colormap(?) everyone else's colormap (?) when the application has focus. so there can only be a single active colormap at a time? the one whose application currently has focus? is that approximately what's going on? pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
