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Re: changing colors on a Mac [message #8062] Wed, 05 February 1997 00:00
davidf is currently offline  davidf
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Registered: September 1996
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Phil Williams <williams@irc.chmcc.org> writes:

> I just got a Mac version of IDL and boy am I upset.
>
> My wonderful XDISPLAY widget which is used for drawing ROIs and display
> images, which runs great on several unix flavors, seems to be quite
> buggy on the Mac version.
>
> It appears that in order to change the colors used for display you not
> only have to change the LUT but then redisplay the image as well?!??!
>
> Is this true?

Sounds like you have the ol' 24-bit blues!

Go to your Monitor Control Panel and set the display for 256 colors.
You have it set on "thousands" or "millions" at the moment.

David

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