Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sbi!victoria
From: victoria@sbi.com (Victoria Drozdov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to clear the colormap dynamically
Message-ID: <1054@sbi.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 13:51:55 GMT
Organization: The Pivot Group
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I have a few applications that allocate a lot of colors.
If xshowcmap is brought up, the color table looks
completely full.

When I try to bring up new applications that try to allocate
even more colors, I run into a problem... It seems like
the color cells cannot be reusable? Even when I close
the original applications that allocated all the colors,
I still cannot allocate any more!

Is there a way that I can dynamically clear the colormap?
Or is there a way that an application can clear the color
entries it was using?

I sure hope that I just don't understand something that's
happening and that the solution is simple.

Thanks in advance for your replies.