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From: nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
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Subject: Re: Changing colors
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Date: 2 Mar 91 20:09:21 GMT
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mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:

>I give up. I did RTFM. How do you change the solid colors Windows uses? 
>I just got a nice 256 color vuideo card and want to change one of the solid
>colors to a dark shade of gray so I can use it as a window background,
>which has to be solid. I can't seem to see how to do this in Windows.
>The COntrol Panel seems not to for doing this. I found that the user defined
>colors don;t generate new colors, just dither old ones. 

Windows only supports some 20 solid colors, the rest are dithered. There's
nothing you can do.

>I am using an Orchid Prodesigned II in 768x1024 mode.
					^^^^^^^^

Shouldn't it be 1024x768?

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