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Re: Colors again! [message #15975]

Thu, 24 June 1999 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Harald Frey wrote:
>
> David Fanning wrote:
>
>>
>> I would read the following article (at least) in
>> the Using Colors in IDL section of my tips page:
>>
>> http://www.dfanning.com/tips/choosing_colors.html
>>
>> This article answers the questions you ask. You can find
>> even more detailed information in my book. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>
> David,
>
> first of all thank you for the answer and the pointing to the explanation.
> Now I probably have to ask a CDE expert how to force it to less colors.
> With my present settings I can not even allocate 128 colors for my IDL
> session without having the color flashing problem. Maybe I have to change
> to a 24-bit system. If my boss pays for it?
>
> Harald
> hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu

Ohh then it's CDE that is the culprit... These fancy new desktops just
use too many colors (with KDE on my linux system I am left with about
100). Unfortunately, there is some gap between the
spread/reliability/easiness of 24bpp systems and the user-interface
(desktop) in the unix world. Shouldn't take too many years though before
24 (or 32) bits will be the standard, though.

Martin
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		Re: Colors again! By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 24 June 1999 00:00
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