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From: efwjr@triton.paradyne.com (Ellsworth Warmouth x2882)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Startup Screen
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Date: 17 Jul 90 03:30:54 GMT
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In <1990Jul13.170839.7768@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:

>[note the Followup line]
>In article <13500017@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> resgroup@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Hi:
>>
>>    Thanks for all of you for telling me how to download gif files to my Mac.
>>I have a new problem now.  I'd like to save a gif picture as the startup
>>screen.  I saved the file as a PICT=0 file in giffer1.06.  It did come up as
>>a startup screen but the color is messed up.  It looked more like a 4-bit color
>>gif files instead of a 8-bit file.  Isn't it strange?  I checked the 
>>StartupScreen file with giffer but it was fine.
>>
>>    Any ideas?

>This one comes up quite often.  Your problem is that the default color table
>is used at startup, and not the color table for the picture.  There are, I
>believe, INITs that will load in the correct CLUT-- I don't know the names
>offhand, but someone on the net should know...
>--

The problem is that by the time you load the first init into the mac the
startup screen is overwritten by the background image selected by the
control panel.  You must change the image to use the default CLUT before
you save it as a startup screen.  I believe that Giffer has an option to
do this but it may be another display program like Vision Labs.

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