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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Menu colors with GIF/etc. viewers
Keywords: Cshow, Vpic, VUimg, VGA, GIF, ???
Message-ID: <1990May29.142030.21058@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 29 May 90 14:20:30 GMT
References: <1990May25.190151.939@cbnewsh.att.com>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990May25.190151.939@cbnewsh.att.com> twb@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.w.beattie) writes:
!
!I have a problem with various GIF/etc. viewers (CSHOW, VPIC, VUIMG, ...).
!After an image is displayed the menu colors are altered and frequently
!unreadable.
!Perhaps the color map from the displayed image is being used for the menu?
!
!Cshow allows the menu colors to be configured but they are redefined by
!each displayed image.  The configured colors only appear in the first menu!
!
!Why?
!Is there some way to get a readable menu?
!Shouldn't the original (or some configured) palette be reloaded before
!the menus are displayed?
!
!I don't think this question/problem is specific to me but I am using
!both a PARADISE PRO 512K VGA and an AT&T VDC600 VGA on AT&T 329D 
!multi(dual?) sync monitors.
!
!Suggestions?
!Comments?
!---
!Tom Beattie

Sounds like it could be a bug in the BIOS.  When video modes are reset,
as when switching from a graphics mode to a text mode, the colors should
show up as standard colors.  (Do you have any software that intercepts
int 10 calls and does something else?)

Venu P. Gopal   UUCP: ..!att!cbnewsc!vgopal   Internet: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com