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Re: 24 bit displays, private colormaps, and other things that keep my up [message #9961 is a reply to message #9904]

Fri, 19 September 1997 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

Senior Member

Aviv Gladman wrote:

> My basic problem seems to stem from the fact that
> IDL/Motif widgets use the shared colormap associated with the Motif/X root
> window, rather than using the private colormap associated with the
> pseudo-color IDL session. I can solve the problem by using a shared
> colormap for the entire session (say, Idl*colors=-5), but this
> considerably restricts the number of colors available to IDL.

Doesn't this just tell IDL to leave alone 5 colors which will be used
by the window system or other applications. That doesn't considerably
restrict the number of colors available.

I use IDL 5.0 on an Ultra with Solaris also, but with OpenWindows,
and I don't experience this problem.

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		24 bit displays, private colormaps, and other things that keep my up By: Aviv Gladman on Fri, 12 September 1997 00:00
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		Re: 24 bit displays, private colormaps, and other things that keep my up By: Aviv Gladman on Thu, 18 September 1997 00:00

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