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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X and images / R5 wishes
Keywords: image
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.092014@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 30 Oct 90 17:20:14 GMT
References: <8913@mirsa.inria.fr>
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In article <8913@mirsa.inria.fr>, mangin@debussy.inria.fr (Frank Mangin) writes:
|>  - As far as I know, the Intrinsics don't provide any way to create a shell
|> widget with a visual different from the root window's visual. Just try to 
|> view RGB images on a pseudo color visual, you will understand...

The X11R4 shell widget has a visual resource.

|>   - Most often, you can't use the default colormap for image
|> viewing. It would be really great to have more than one colormap active
|> a time (I mean pixels with the same value simultaneously displayed
|> with different colors depending on the window they belong to).

Does your hardware support this?  Sure, you could simulate it in software,
but performance would be terrible.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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