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Re: TVRD, true color, indexed color, bit depth [message #50320]

Mon, 25 September 2006 14:22

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Ed Hyer writes:

> The Z-buffer works as advertised (8-bit indexed color). However, the
> behavior of using WINDOW,/PIXMAP appears to have changed. This now
> appears to always produce a 24-bit buffer. I have several routines that
> worked recently that returned indexed data from PIXMAP windows. I am
> confused, which is news to no one.

Well, you and everyone else. For a long while IDL
was changing the way color was handled with every release.
It seems to have settled down lately, but I *still* get
results I don't fully understand from time to time when
I am on the road and away from my own fully-debugged setup. :-)

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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