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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Standard Colormap
Message-ID: <9101220425.AA12860@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 91 04:25:26 GMT
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> I am writing an image processing progm which requires using a
> standard colormap.  However, it seems to me that the standard
> colormap cannot be created.  The following is my sample code[s].

[...]
>     if (XGetStandardColormap(XtDisplay(top), RootWindow(XtDisplay(top),
>         DefaultScreen(XtDisplay(top))),
>         &std_colormap, XA_RGB_DEFAULT_MAP) == 0)

XGetStandardColormap does not create a standard colormap.  It merely
finds one if one has previously been created.  (Incidentally,
XGetStandardColormap has been superseded by XGetRGBColormap.)  Try
using xstdcmap to create the standard colormap first.

					der Mouse

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