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Re: IDL colors on Linux XFree86 [message #13353 is a reply to message #13352] Sat, 07 November 1998 00:00 Go to previous message
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On 6 Nov 1998 22:49:06 GMT, Dirk Fabian <dirk@uwast.astro.wisc.edu> wrote:
> bit color, but for various reasons, i can only do 16 bits. But, it seems
> that XFree86 only has one visual class that a program can use!
>

You are right XFree does not support multiple visuals at the samre time.
There are commercial X servers that do.
I believe AccelX from Xig (www.xig.com) is the one - you may get
a demo to try it out...

But as far as I am concern it is a poor coding on IDL behalf.


> OR, is this a problem with XFree86 that can be worked around, or is there
> another (hopefully free!) solution that can be used?
>

Hope it helps.

> - Dirk


Regards,
Dmitri.
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