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Re: Prevent color flashing [message #17578]

Tue, 02 November 1999 00:00

thompson
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pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) writes:

> 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.

You might try "netscape -install" which tells Netscape to use a private color
map. This allows IDL to use a lot more colors. The side effect is that
when Netscape is selected, then all the other programs end up with weird
colors.

William Thompson

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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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