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From: cs060128@csusac.csus.edu (H Philip Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WinGIF problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.215837.7319@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 21:58:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.162106.26234@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: CSU, Sacramento
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In article <1991Mar15.162106.26234@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>
>I am having some strange problems with WinGIF.  
>
>program), and configured windows for 800x600x256.  When I open a gif file
>in WinGIF, it opens it upside-down!  It actually reads it upside-down to
>the screen (you can watch it scroll from bottom up).  Not only this, but I
>discovered if I minimize the WinGIF process and then maximize it, the GIF
>has turned itself rightside up again!  If I try to open a second gif, it
>comes out upside down again!.  This did not happen when I was running in
>

The upside-down loads happened to me too, except my system is different from
yours.  WinGIF was running great until I installed the 800x600 256 color
driver for my TVGA 8900.  (I got the driver from cica).  However, after the
picture is loaded, it automatically flips back to normal.  Now, I've switched
back to the old 800x600 16 color driver and WinGIF loads properly.

I'm not too sure but could be something to do with 256 color and WinGIF.
BTW, it's the same (upside down) for the 1024x768 (256 color) and 640x480
(256 color) too.  It loads properly when I use any of the 16 color drivers.

Any other 256 color users out there that noticed the same thing?

-Philip