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From: b_murphy@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Switching Monitor Depth
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.093117.2405@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Date: 8 Oct 90 01:31:17 GMT
References: <1990Oct5.052135.1635@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Oct5.154600.13120@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Oct5.181524.622@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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> Now that I'm off *my* soapbox, I have no idea how to change the depth, but
> if anyone would like to send me a IIfx + color monitor, I'd be happy to
> investigate it for the poster.

Me too, me too....

But seriously, if we don't start asking questions about the interface
it won't get better. So I must agree with the idea of giving the user
the option to let the program change the depth of the screen, *HOWEVER*
what happens if this very same user is painting in 24-bit mode and your
program works in 8-bit mode and the user says it's ok to change. The
user will switch back to their painting job and find that the whole world
has changed. It would start to look like an *** (censored) wouldn't it?

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