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From: devin@samwise.Colorado.EDU (Yampalimardilor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: 8 bit colormap on a 24 bit machine
Keywords: 8 bit and 24 bit aaggh!
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Date: 27 Aug 90 21:17:05 GMT
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	I'm getting an 8 bit PseudoColor visual on a 24 bit machine.
This works no problem.  However, I then allocate a colormap, and then
try to place the foreground, background, whitepixel, blackpixel, etc
colors into my private colormap so that the other windows don't disappear.
But the background pixel value is huge - bigger than 256, for sure.
What should I do?

I'm trying to run on a VAXstation 3520 running Ultrix 4.0 (DECwindows)
which is based (still!) on X11R3...

	Thanks
	-Devin

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