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From: brownrigg@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Setting up CLUTs - Advise???????
Message-ID: <24664.266d7b29@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 21:52:41 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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Can anyone suggest the general mechanism one needs to use to display a
pixMap with PRECISELY CHOSEN colors??  I've read and re-read the relevent
chapters of IMV5 and am still confused and frustrated as to what to do.

The problem domain is that I have output from a 24->8bit color quantizer
which has carefully chosen 256 optimal colors representing the source image.
I simply want to display the image on the Mac, and since this is a research
context, I want all 256 colors of my AppleExtendedColorVideo card available,
regardless of what color effects happen (temporarily) to the desktop, menu 
bar, window frames, etc.  No multiple screens.

I seems as though I don't want/need the services of the Palette manager
getting in the way, but I'm not sure.  All I ever get is the default 
palette, or a black&white one.


Thanks in advance for any non-flame replies..


Rick Brownrigg
Kansas Geological Survey