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Re: DirectColor on linux [message #18075 is a reply to message #17993]

Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Vincent Favre-Nicolin (favre@polycnrs-gre.fr) writes:

> Right. My choice, too. Just a change of colors before TV/plot/whatever,
> for most cases. It's clearly not *hard*, but just annoying since IDL
> should work for all platforms with very limited changes,and
> -IMHO-, without any change between one *nix to another.

I'm not above blaming IDL for all the world's problems
occasionally, but in this case I would have to say it's
probably not IDL's fault.

I would say that IDL does (mostly) work the same on
all platforms in 24-bit True Color. (I do wish
someone would fix the annoying behavior of running
24-bit images through the color tables when Device,
Decomposed=0 on Windows platforms, however. That is
MOST annoying and doesn't work that way on UNIX
machines.) But I don't think there is a general
agreement on what Direct Color really means.

I don't know anyone who can get it to work from
one machine to another, let alone from one flavor
of UNIX to another. And it is not even available
in the PC world, so why worry about it. :-)

> But I have a feeling it will be a bit more
> funny when using XOR to display text (reversibly)
> over images. I'm in for some groovy colors =-)

Yep. One reason I *never* use the XOR method. I'm
a tried-and-true Device Copy man, myself.

Cheers,

David

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		DirectColor on linux By: doosh on Mon, 22 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: doosh on Wed, 24 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: J.D. Smith on Wed, 24 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: davidf on Wed, 24 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: davidf on Wed, 24 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: Vincent Favre-Nicolin on Wed, 24 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: davidf on Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: Vincent Favre-Nicolin on Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: Vincent Favre-Nicolin on Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: davidf on Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00
		Re: DirectColor on linux By: davidf on Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00

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