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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 video cards?
Message-ID: <1345@radius.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:46:39 GMT
References: <1622whiteheada@yvax.byu.edu> <9855@bunny.GTE.COM>
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MLH1@bunny.gte.com (Michael Hackney) writes:

}One piece of advice.  Whatever card you choose, I highly recommend getting 
}(and becoming a registered user) of "Launcher".  Create a Launcher for 
}each of your applications and set the video display attributes to whatever 
}the app requires.
}
}This eliminates the headache of using the control panel 
}to change video modes everytime you switch apps that don't work/use a 
}particular mode!

This is why RadiusWare (the init/cdev that ships with Radius display
interfaces) includes a "pop-up bit-depth changer".  You simply hit control
and option, and click the mouse, and a pop-up menu appears.  With the
currently shipping version, you see a list of the available bit-depths for
whatever screen the cursor is on (e.g. 1, 2, 4, and 8).

However, I just re-wrote it (it will be in RadiusWare version 1.6, which is
NOT available yet) so that it will now display not only the available
bit-depths (now in the wording of the control panel, e.g. Black & White,
4, 16, 256), but will also let you switch between color and grayscale, and
furthermore the changes you make will be saved for the next time you restart.
In addition, it will (should) work for any display you have installed in
your system, provided one of them is a Radius display (a condition necessary
for RadiusWare to load in the first place).

Anyway, the major point being that this is also a lot more convenient than
going all the way into the control panel, and it now does (soon will do)
essentially the same thing.

(PLEASE DON'T call Radius asking for RadiusWare 1.6 - if you already have a
Radius display in your Mac II or SE/30 and you're interested in getting a
copy of it when it's ready, send me email.  I might even send you a beta
version to play with.  Other than the bit-depth changer, however, there's
really no new features that you would notice, though, other than Tear-Off
Menu compatibility with the new FileMaker Pro.)

--Steve
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