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Re: Force 8bit display ? [message #47283 is a reply to message #47277]

Wed, 01 February 2006 08:13

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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L. Testut writes:

> This doesn't set my display to a PseudoColor 8-bit ?
> my display seems to be is locked to TrueColor 24-bit.
> IDL> device, get_visual_name=name, get_visual_depeth=depth
> always return me depth=24 and name=TrueColor even after invoking the
> magic formula device, pseudo_color=8 ? (because of LINUX and not UNIX
> ??)

Humm. I was afraid of that. It probably has more to do
with the kind of hardware you are using. People have
moved on and no one making 24-bit machines today can imagine
why *anyone* would want to cripple the darn things like
this. :-)

I have a LINUX OS on my laptop now (a LONG story...),
so maybe I'll have a chance to play with this later.

> As the sixties-seventies period are very fashionnable at the moment, I
> propose that you build a special color table dedicated to this period

> mycolor = getcolor(/seventies) ; marvellous beatnik color table

A great idea! But how would this differ from HardCandy or
Nature, two colortables I *know* were created when the
authors were on acid?

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 02 February 2006 01:49
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 01 February 2006 10:14
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 February 2006 09:47
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 01 February 2006 09:39
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 February 2006 08:13
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: L. Testut on Wed, 01 February 2006 07:51
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: David Fanning on Wed, 01 February 2006 06:21
		Re: Force 8bit display ? By: peter.albert@gmx.de on Wed, 01 February 2006 05:18

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