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Re: Screen dump to file - color problems [message #35790]

Wed, 16 July 2003 20:28

Richard French
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On 7/16/03 9:08 PM, in article BB3B3262.AD6%rfrench@wellesley.edu, "Richard
G. French" <rfrench@wellesley.edu> wrote:

> On 7/16/03 3:05 PM, in article MPG.197f4ff75447029b9896aa@news.frii.com,
> "David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>> Richard G. French writes:
>>
>>> Thanks for any hints.
>>
>> Do you know those little, tiny square glasses they
>> use for viewing 3D movies? Might work. :-)
>>
>> If you tried all this and you are still having problems,
>> my guess is "bug". But before we give in, is your
>> display set to 16-bit or 24-bit graphics? In other
>> words, what is the result of this command?
>>
>> IDL> Device, Get_Visual_Depth=theDepth & Print, theDepth
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>
> YES, I get 24.
>
> Anyone else have a PowerBookG4 running X11 that you can try this on?
>
> By the way, I was running idl, not idlde. Not sure if that would make any
> difference, but I'll try it.
>
> Is there a chance that something in my idl.startup file could be messing
> things up? Possibly relevant lines in the file are:
>
> device,true_color=24
> window,/FREE,/PIXMAP,colors=-10,xsize=10,ysize=10
> wdelete,!d.window
> device,decomposed=0,retain=1
> device,BYPASS_TRANSLATION=0 ; to fix color problem in IDL5.5
>
>

The offending command was the last one - I am not sure what problem in
IDL5.5 was supposedly solved by including this command, but when I delete
it, the screen capture works correctly. Thanks to those of you who gave me
some help on this. Everything had worked under IDL5.5, now that I think of
it. I'm delighted!

Dick

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		Re: Screen dump to file - color problems By: Richard French on Wed, 16 July 2003 20:28
		Re: Screen dump to file - color problems By: Richard French on Wed, 16 July 2003 18:08
		Re: Screen dump to file - color problems By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 16 July 2003 15:16
		Re: Screen dump to file - color problems By: btt on Wed, 16 July 2003 13:12
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