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Re: True Color, but !d.table_size eq 64? [message #23763 is a reply to message #23693]

Tue, 13 February 2001 04:29

Alex Schuster
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Registered: February 1997

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Alex Schuster wrote:

> On our Ultrasparcs, with True Color display, I only get a color table
> with 64 entries. I start IDL, open a window, and !d.table_size is 64,
> not 256, or the value I pass via the colours keyword.
> Any idea why this happens? Under Windows, it's always 256.
>
> About all of my programs only need 8-bit color, so I used to do a
> device, pseudo=8 to switch completele to 8-bit mode, and everything was
> fine. But now I would like to use a true color display and
> non-decomposed colors, but 64 coler cells is not enough. Hey, where's
> the problem, there are plenty of colors, it's a true-color display after
> all!

Um, it is not. I just forgot the DEVICE, TRUE_COLOR=24 statement. Silly
me.

Alex
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		True Color, but !d.table_size eq 64? By: Alex Schuster on Fri, 09 February 2001 08:02
		Re: True Color, but !d.table_size eq 64? By: Alex Schuster on Wed, 14 February 2001 08:42
		Re: True Color, but !d.table_size eq 64? By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 13 February 2001 04:29

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