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Re: Exceed and IDL [message #16224 is a reply to message #16221]

Mon, 05 July 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Grady Daub (gadZOOKS8371@garnet.acns.fsuMMER.edu) writes:
> Sometimes I use Exceed to run a Common Desktop Environment on an IBM
> type computer. (Pentiums and all that.) After a while, I discovered that
> I had to type
>
> DEVICE, DECOMPOSE=0
>
> for the colors to work. (Thanks to RSI for letting me discover that
> while searching their site for something else and for RSI tech. support
> for not realizing that that was the solution to my problem.)

What!? Don't those folks read this newsgroup? That is the
answer to 95% of the problems that have the word "color"
in their descriptions! :-)

> Now, I've a new problem.
> The problem is that,while using exceed, the colors don't cycle
> on-screen. The displayed picture (or, say, XLOADCT) colors stay the
> same. You have to reload the picture to see the final outcome of the
> palette change.

The answer to the other 5% of the color questions is "that
is how 24-bit color works". Here are some articles you
might want to read:

http://www.dfanning.com/documents/tips.html#UsingColors

Specifically, be sure you read these:

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/colors24.html
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/noxloadct.html
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/image24_colors.html

The kind of information you have been asking about lately is
covered in *extensive* detail in my book. If you are a
student, you might be interested in one of my "student
discounted books". I got some books back from Amazon
this weekend, whose covers had been damaged in shipment.
(More likely in *unpacking* the shipment, but they are
selling so many books for me, I'm not inclined to complain.)

In any case, these books don't look so good on the outside,
but they save you *months* of aggravation on the inside. :-)

Cheers,

David

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Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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		Re: Exceed and IDL By: meron on Thu, 08 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 08 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 08 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: davidf on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Richard G. French on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: davidf on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: bkrrrrr on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: bkrrrrr on Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00
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		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Barry Latter on Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00
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