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From: adp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (David Dawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Colour
Keywords: NeWS colour grayscales
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.094100.18896@csug.rdg.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Nov 90 09:41:00 GMT
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Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ., UK.
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Hi there.

I am having real problems trying to deal with colour and grayscales ( the whole
damn kaboodle ) in NeWS. My colleague and I are trying to produce simple
pie charts - that's easy. The difficult part is trying to gain control over
the colours that are used, or even trying to use just gray-scaling. We 
understand the colour models used ( I think - I've done a bit of colour stuff
in Xlib) , but we're buggered if we can get a canvas to come up that we have
explicitly set the colour on. 

We are beginning to think that the whole idea of colour in NeWS is just a 
sick joke, and that it is all in  the hands of the server, which is a mean
and nasty sadist.

Please, somebody show us otherwise.  Seriously, it's really important that
we get a handle on this thing real soon.

Many thanks in advance,

Dave and Al.
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