| Re: Problems with visual depth of 24 in IDL 6.1 [message #56338] |
Fri, 19 October 2007 04:24 |
rkombiyil
Messages: 59
Registered: March 2006
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On Oct 19, 6:16 pm, vera.me...@yahoo.de wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My problem, here we are:
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> I shall apply an IDL Program which produced perfectly good pictures
> when using a graphic card of visual depth=16. However, my graphic Card
> seems to be younger having a visual depth of 24. The pictures I get
> are black, because IDL does not recognise the homemade colortables,
> defined within the program. If I use the default colours , I can
> produce black and white pictures. It has to be the setting of the
> visual depth, because if I change the setting of my graphic card to a
> depth of 16, I can reproduce the right graphics.
>
> I tried to set the Visual Depth in IDL with
> device, Visual_Depth=24
> but IDL w'ont accept.
>
> (Probably I should also mention that the visual name ist TrueColor.)
>
> What can i do?
>
> Regards, Vera
Try
device,true_color=24
/rk
P.S. Rather than trying to set them individually everytime, I do it in
my dotrc file (.idlrc, assuming you are using *nix). You can specify
all your private settings there. Maybe you already are doing so, just
in case. Good luck!
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