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From: andreas@didymus.rmi.de (Andreas Fassl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What am I missing? (UIL color/mono question)
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.134627.1186@didymus.rmi.de>
Date: 10 Nov 90 13:46:27 GMT
References: <0FB56146095F602D36@fccc.edu> <9010312125.AA17868@osf.osf.org> <7882@adobe.UUCP>
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In <7882@adobe.UUCP> asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) writes:

>In article <9010312125.AA17868@osf.osf.org> libby@osf.ORG writes:
>>When you have any widget which is set to a color then displayed on a monochrome
>>monitor, the Toolkit figures out whether your color is more like black or white
>>and displays it accordingly.

>(A nit)  It's the server, actually, not the Toolkit (unless Motif has replaced
>the default string to color converter with something a lot more sophisticated).

Hm, I thought that the color->b/w conversion is predefined in UIL via the
color command

F.E. :    

value red : color('red',foreground); ! Will be used as foreground color on        crom

        blue : color ('blue',background);

With kind regards

Andreas Fassl