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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Help on X colormap
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Date: 22 Aug 90 22:07:24 GMT
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> I am trying to display more than 256 different colors, [...].
> I am wondering if there is a way [...] to display 256+ colors.

>   Class : PseudoColor
>   Depth : 8 planes
>   size of colormap : 256 entries

As long as you use that visual, there is no way you can ever possibly
get more than 256 colors.

Technically speaking, it is possible to get more than 256 colors with
the above.  However, I doubt that there are any servers out there that
can actually give it to you.  It would require a server whose
max-installed-maps value for the visual is greater than 1; also, you
would have to use more than one window.  The former condition is the
difficult one - as far as I know, servers that satisfy it simply do not
exist.  (Now I'll probably get 200 messages telling me I'm wrong, that
there is the Frobozz 2199 that has a max-installed-maps of 8....:)

					der Mouse

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