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Re: Prevent color flashing [message #17586 is a reply to message #17578]

Tue, 02 November 1999 00:00

pln
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Registered: September 1991

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David Fanning (davidf@dfanning.com) wrote:
:
: 3. You have NetScape running when you start up IDL.
:
: NetScape likes a LOT of colors, just like IDL. If
: NetScape is running when IDL starts up, there are
: no colors left in the shared color map and IDL gets
: a private color map. The solution is to tell NetScape
: to restrict its color consumption (I always forget how,
: but it's simple).
:
This was the problem. When I shut Netscape off, I was able to share
the colormap. I have started netscape with the option -ncols 128, which
makes it much less obnoxious.

Thanks.

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		Re: Prevent color flashing By: thompson on Tue, 02 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Prevent color flashing By: pln on Tue, 02 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Prevent color flashing By: Pavel Romashkin on Tue, 02 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Prevent color flashing By: davidf on Mon, 01 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Prevent color flashing By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 01 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Prevent color flashing By: Pavel Romashkin on Mon, 01 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Prevent color flashing By: davidf on Mon, 01 November 1999 00:00

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