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From: kennel@minnie.cognet.ucla.edu (Matthew Kennel)
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Subject: Re: Is The Screen Color?
Keywords: monochrome, color
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Date: 29 Jun 89 22:42:17 GMT
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In article <18700@paris.ics.uci.edu> dbainbri@ics.uci.edu (David Bainbridge) writes:
>
>  A while back someone asked about how to determine if the screen was
>color or black and white.  I found this in a book I have by O'Reilly and
>Associates. 
>
>#include < "Standard X Includes" >
>int		depth;
>"Open Display, and get default screen"
>depth = DisplayPlanes( display, screen );
>if ( depth == 1 ) 
>  "Screen is monochrome"
>else
>  "Screen is color"
>
>I haven't tested this, but I hope it works, I plan to use it.
>

This seems wrong, at least to me, just on general principles.  The NeXT
machine is monochrome (well, really "di-chrome" if you count black & white) but
has more than one display plane.

Or by "color" do you include various shades of grey?  But I still think
there's a difference.

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Matt Kennel
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